The Week.

accident was the subject of investigation by the coronet- at Upper Tooting on Monday . It appears that Mr . Richard Gibbs , who had been for upwards of fifty years a large tea broker in the City , was found ou Friday morning drowned in the cistern at his own residence . The supposition is that he had been attempting to remedy some defect in the valve , and falling in

had so mot with his death . The jury returned a verdict to that effect . On Monday an inquest was held on the body of Mr . Havdcastle , a teacher of languages , at Liverpool , who lost his life by fire . The wretched man was found in a state of delirium tremens , lying upon his bed , and the clothes in flames . He had been addicted to drink , and from this no doubt arose

the calamity which deprived him of life . A verdict in accordance with the evidence was returned . An inquest has been held on two men who were killed at the London end of the

London and Brighton Railway while engaged in posting up bills on the wall . It appeared that the men , or at any rate one of them , was on a ladder engaged in posting the bills when tbe train came past , and that the foot of the ladder was necessarily placed so near tho rail—the space being very narrow at that part—that the ladder was knocked down

and both men were killed . The jury returned a verdict of accidental death , at the same time recommending that more caution should be used in posting bills at the station . The balance-sheet in the bankrupt estate of Colonel Waugh has just been published . The debts amount to upwards of £ 333 , 000 , while the assets amount to little more than one-half , or £ 186 , 000 ,

tbe bulk of which is already iu the hands of the creditors . The deficit is sot down to legal and professional expenses , farm expenses , losses , & c . A letter received at Liverpool announces the loss of her Majesty ' s ship Bulldog , and all hands , except seven persons . No particulars are known ; but the ill-fated

vessel had sailed from Bermuda to some other port . The Primate opened his primary visitation at Canterbury Cathedral on Tuesday last . In his charge bis Grace advocates an extension of the episcopate and the modification of some of the existing forms of clerical subscription , but strongly opposes the proposed alterations iu the burial service . The question of the interpretation of the Sacred Writings is treated at some length , and

the Archbishop is severe upon tbe " small party" who " claim the right of maintaining that , although the Holy Bible contains the word of God , the word of God is not co-extensive with the Sacred Volume , and that it is left to each individual to decide which is the Divine element and which is the human , and to reject that which does not approve itself to a man ' s verifying faculty . " He is , nevertheless , of opinion that undue alarm has

been excited by the writings of Dr . Colenso and the judgment of the Privy Council ; and with regard to the latter he endeavours "to dissuade his reverend brethren from committing themselves to any particular line of conduct in consequence of apprehensions which may have less foundation than many persons imagine . " On Thursday the Lord Chancellor , accompanied

by the other Lords Commissioners , attended at the House of Lords , when the Royal Commission was read , further proroguing Parliament to Friday , the 11 th of November . FoEE-io-jr ISTBTXIQEKCE . —The text of the Convention recently concluded by the French and Italian Governments has been published in Paris , along with a subsequent protocol .

This protocol provides that tbe period of six months within which the Italian capital is to be transferred from Turin to Plorence , and also the term of two years within which the French troops are to be withdrawn from Home , are to be reckoned from the date of the royal assent to the bill which King Victor Emmanuel ' s Ministers will submit to the Italian Parliament . Tho publication of the official documents has

in no degree modified public opinion in Paris as to tho nature of the compromise , and tbe ultimate consequences likely to follow the carrying out of the convention . Ifc is also believed that other stipulations exist , although kept in the background , involving a renewal of the aggressive policy towards Austria . A paper of Rouen asserts that the Empress has sent an

autograph letter to the Pope , promising soon to bring her son to be initiated into the mysteries of religion , and encouraging his Holiness to bear up against tbe attacks of his enemies . A letter professedly from the pen of Mazzini , on the new Convention appears in the Pays . He considers if the letter --is genuine that the treaty regarding Rome amounts to

treason ; treason against the declaration of Parliament , against tbe repeated declarations of Cavour's successors , against the declarations set forth in the plebiscites to which the

kingdom of Italy owes its existence . Plebiscites , Parliament ,. Government , country , all have declared that Italy should be one , and that Rome should be the metropolis of Italy . Here now is the solemn decree which the Convention sanctions ; the acceptation of its clauses acknowledges the rights of the foreign invader over Rome , and over the Italians . Italy , says

the writer , is doomed to become enslaved , dismembered , or disloyal . If the Government maintains the clauses of the Convention , it decrees the restoration of the feudal system . Borne given up for two years to a struggle equally ferocious and without issue ; Italy a chained , motionless spectator of that struggle ; it is a permanent Aspromonte . It was announced

on Monday at Copenhagen that " the conclusion of peace is near at hand , " as the Danish Cabinet has consented to fix at 9 , 000 , 000 rigsdalers , or about £ 1 , 100 , 000 , the share which Schleswig and Holsfcein are to he allowed in the public property of Denmark ; and that sum will consequently be deducted

from the amount of the Danish debt to be borne by the Duchies . A Vienna paper states that the Austrian army is to be considerably reduced , and that 15 , 000 soldiers will immediately be sent on furlough from the regiments in Venetia . ISBIA AND JAPAJT . —The Bombay mail has arrived , hut the advices are not very important . Military preparations for an

expedition into Bhoofcan , in order to punish tbe Bhootanese for the outrages offered by them to the British Envoy , were said to be rapidly advancing . An Embassy from the Khan of Kokand , in Central Asia , had reached Cashmere , on its way to the Viceroy of India , for the purpose of procuring " the advice aud assistance of the British in reference to the attempt of the Russians to make a highroad for troops through Kokand . " Sir

Charles Denison , the governor of the Madras Presidency , was alleged to have " refused to carry out Sir Charles Wood ' s instructions relative to the position of the Indian local officers , oa the ground that they are opposed to the royal wishes , aud ave a flagrant violation of the guarantee granted by the imperial Parliament to the officers of the army of the late Company . "

The Viceroy was about proceeding to Lahore to hold a durbar to receive all the Punjaub chiefs , after which he would return to Calcutta and open the legislative session . There is a report that Sir C . Trevelyan will return from India in April , and thafc no successor with tbe title of Finance Minister will be appointed . A Shanghai telegram states that " affairs were more

complicated" in Japan , as there was a " prospect of hostilities" in the Straits of Simonosaki , and as it was expected that the Prince of Negato ' s forts would be attacked by the English squadron . NEW ZSATI & ND . —According to a despatch from Melbourne , dated the 25 th August , " advices from New Zealand indicated the possibility of peace . " There had been no further military movements ; but the revolted Maories were said to be sufferin