The Week.

on which the steamship City of New Yorh recently struck . He added that a private survey was now being made with the view of ascertaining the possibility of blowing up this dangerous rock . —Captain Jervis withdrew his motion relative to the grievances of the old East India Company ' s officers , who are alleged to have suffered some injustice from the amalgamation of the Company ' s

ancl the Queen ' s service , Sir Charles Wood having intimated that the Government had decided to act , upon the recommendations of the Royal Commission which had inquired into the subject . —Lord Robert Cecil ' s resolution , condemning the " mutilation" of the reports of the Inspectors of Schools was carried by a majority of eight , —a ministerial reverse which

was greeted with 'loud cheers by the Opposition . —Tbe House was counted out shortly after eight o'clock , during a speech from Mr . Dillwyn on the insufficiency of the Patent Museum . ¦ On Wednesday Mr . Locke King moved tbe second reading of his bill for the extension of the county franchise . Mr . Augustus Smith , a Liberal , moved tbe previous question , urging

that the bill was " impolitic , dangerous , and open to many constitutional objections . " Mr . Knightley , a Conservative , supported the amendment , on the ground that the reduction of the county franchise from £ 50 to £ 10 would entirely destroy the political influence of the county constituencies . Lord Enfield , a Liberal , insisted that the county franchise should not be

reduced below £ 20 . Lord Robert Montagu , Mr . Newdegate , Mr . G . Bontinck , Mr . Treherne , Mr . Collins , and Sir John Walsh ( Conservatives ) opposed the bill , which was supported by Lord Henley , Mr . Neate , Mr . Hibbevt , ancl Mr . Pease ( Liberals ) . Mr . Warner , an advanced Liberal , suggested that the bill should be referred to a select committee . Lord Palmerston would vote for the second reading , but only because an opposite

course might be understood to signify that he was opposed to any extension of the suffrage . If the bill , however , got into committee , he should vote against the clause fixing the county qualification at £ 10 , and he added that from various circumstances the people of England were less disposed than formerly to demand organic changes in the institutions of the country . On a division , the bill was thrown out by a majority of 27 , —

the number of members voting being 481 . After a strong protest from Mr . Bright , the motion for the committal of the new Irish Game Bill was carried by a majority of 103 . GENERAL HOME NEWS . —The mortality in London still continues high . The deaths last week amounted to 1 , 501 , which is 118 more than the corrected average of the corresponding

week during the last ten years . The excess of deaths in the week may be taken as the type of the excess all through the whole quarter . The "unhealthy winter that we have just passed through may be estimated from the fact that 4 , 000 persons have died during the last three months in excess of the average mortality of the winter quarter during the last four years .

The births for the last week were 2 , 013 , slightly exceeding the average . It will be very satisfactory to our readers to learn , from the weekly statement issued by the Statistical Department of the Poor-law Board , that the number of paupers in the cotton districts continues to decline . "No unions have more paupers " is an unusual announcement . Last week 6 , 600

paupers went off the union relief lists . We observe , however , that upwards of 36 , 000 adult able-bodied persons yet remain upon the poor rates . The report of Lieut . General Sir John Pennefather on the Volunteer Review at Blackheath on Easter Monday has been published . The Volunteers may well be gratified with it , for it awards them great praise —praise all the more valuable that it is not indiscriminate . The reception given to Garibaldi on his entrance into London ,

on Monday , was one of the most enthusiafcic on record . The route of the procession from Nine Elms railway station to Stafford House was crowded with a dense mass of spectators , through which the General with difficulty made his way . Addresses were presented at the railway station , and Garibaldi briefly and simply replied to them . On Tuesday , the General , accompauied by the Duke of Sutherland , left Stafford House , and proceeded

to the house of the Duchess Dowager at Chiswick , where a sumptuous dejeuner was provided , and a distinguished partywas assembled to meet him . The road was lined with a considerable crowd of persons , who saluted the general as he passed , and he , on his part , cordially returned their greetings . Garibaldi paid a visit to Lord Palmerston and Lord Russell , on

Wednesday , and then visited Woolwich Arsenal and Dockyard . Manchester , Liverpool , Leeds , Bradford , York , and other places in the north are busily engaged in making arrangements for doing honour to Garibaldi , whose reception in every part of the country which he may find time to visit , promises to be an unexampled demonstration of popular enthusiasm . The

freedom of London is to be presented to him next week . A meeting of an interesting character was held at the London Tavern on Wednesday . Its object was to pass resolutions of thanks to Sir Moses Montefiore for his philanthrophic conduct iu undertaking his journey to Morocco to procure the enfranchisement of his oppressed co-religionists in that country . The

meeting was very numerously attended . Alderman Salomons presided . The resolutions passed not only thanked Sir Moses Montefiore , but also Earl Russell for the assistance he had given the self-denying philanthropist . They also acknowledged the services of the British Consuls in Morocco . Lord Palmerston has , it is said , offered the junior Lordship of the Admiralty to Mr . XV . E . Baxter , M . P ., for the Montrose

burghs , but it is at present doubtful whether the offer will be accepted . The power of Mr . Mackay's now gun has been demonstrated by a single shot . The trial took place at Crosby on Tuesday , the target representing a section of the new armour-plated ship Agincourt . At a range of 200 yards a ball weighing 1671 b ., was thrown with 301 b . of powder , completely through the target , which it so seriously shattered that it was

rendered completely useless . The target was of immense strength , the outer plate alone being 5-Jin . thick . At the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday , John Devine was put upon his trial for the murder of Joseph Duck . The murdered man , it will be remembered , was fonnd lying with his skull fractured in a street in Marylebone . He was removed to the

hospital , and shortly afterwards died . Previously , however , he complained of having been robbed , and some of the things which had been taken from him were traced to the prisoner . The evidence was purely of a circumstantial character . The jury found Devine guilty , but recommended him to mercy on the ground that when he attacked Duck he did not intend to kill

but only to rob him . He was sentenced to death . Information has been received in London respecting an enormous theft of bar gold , worth £ 50 , 000 , from the sunken steamer Golden Gate , near San Francisco . The Golden Gate was wrecked in July , 1862 , having on board £ 450 , 000 worth of gold and specie . The underwriters by whom the vessel had

been insured despatched an agent to the scene of the wreck , ancl a party of men who recovered about £ 50 , 000 worth of bar gold , decamped with it . It is believed that most of the boot y has already been forwarded to London . One of the suspected thieves has been taken into custody . A most extraordinary attempt to commit a double murder was made at Worcester on Tuesday . One Walter Jones , the son of a highly respectable surgeon in that town , appears to have stolen a pistol from the