Masonic Festivities.

of AVorcester and Stafford , to which Bros . Col . Vernon , Royds , and Dudley Parsons responded . The health of the president and vicepresident of the day were received with the greatest enthusiasm , as were those of Bros . Sheppard , W . M . of Lodge No . 313 , Mascfield . PAL , No . 313 , and Brooke , AVAL of Lodge No . 219 , all of which wero responded to in truly Masonic style . After spending a most harmonious aud pleasant evening , the brethren returned by the last train from Hagley , highly delighted with their Masonic re-union .

The Week.

THE WEEK .

THE COURT . —The Queen took a drive on Saturday morning at Alde . cshot , and the Prince Consort rode out ou horseback . The Prince of AV . iles rode with the Prince Consort , and the Princesses Alice and Helena and Prince Arthur accompanied her Majesty in her carriage . The Queen drove round a part of the camp , and inspected the regimental schools , the wards of the hospital , and also the racket court . Late in the afternoon her Majesty reviewed the whole of the troops now in

camp at Aldershot , amounting to nearly 20 , 000 . On Monday her Majesty , the Prince Consort , and the Prince of Wales , left Aldershot , and proceeded to the new cam )) at AVoolmor , and reviewed the cavalry division . After the review the royal party proceeded by special train in the afternoon to Gosport , where they embarked in the royal steam yacht Fairy , Captain Denman , en route for Osborne , which they reached in the evening . On AA ednesday and Thursday the Queen and royal family walked and drove . There was no addition to the royal dinner party . The duration of the royal famil y ' s stay in the Isle of Wight is ? iot fixed , but must of course depend upon public affairs .

FOREIGN NEWS . —The happy tidings of peace form tho crowning news of this week . At Paris , the Monilcur of Monday , publishes the reasons which induced the belligerents to agree to an armistice . Inspired by sentiments of moderation , and anxious to prevent tho needless effusion of human blood , the Emperor Napoleon , it says , sought to ascertain whether the Emperor of Austria was animated with similar sentiments , and finding this to be the ease , an armistice was concluded . On the other hand , an Austrian paper , the Oberpoxtttmpts ZeUitng , states that it

was at the repeated request of the French that the armistice was granted . Commercial vessels of all countries may therefore navigate the Adriatic unmolested . The news of the armistice has had a very beneficial effect upon the public mind in Paris , and produced a considerable rise iu Rentes and other securities . All suspense was terminated by a telegram from the Emperor No-poleou to the Empress , communicating the important information that a treaty of peace had been signed between the Emperor and the Emperor of Austria on the following Bases : —An

Italian confederation , under the honorary presidency of the Pope ; the Emperor of Austria gives up his rights over Lombardy to the Emperor of the French , who remits them to the King of Sardinia ; the Austrian Fmperov keeps Venetia , but it is to form part of the Italian Confederation , and a general amnesty is to be granted . The people of Paris are on the r / ui vive in anticipation of the return of the Emperor , to whom they are prepared to give a most enthusiastic reception . It appears by advices from Turin that the news of an armistice having been

concluded between France and Austria had created intense dissatisfaction among the patriotic party . The correspondents draw a shocking picture of the state of the immediate seat of warlike operations . The troops were suffering greatly from the heat , from dysentery , and the want of water . At Goito , where the corps of Prince Napoleon is

encamped , the stench of tho unburied horses is dreadful , and the air for miles is tainted with the smell from the half buried , bodies of the slain on both sides . A telegram from Trieste informs UA that an Austrian steamer sustained a successful contest with a French frigate , in the channel of Zara , on Thursday . The Vienna Gazelle publishes a protest of the Duchess Regent of Parma against the lace political changes which have occurred within the duchy , " contrary to the , directions" left by the duchess on her departure , and "to tho rights aud interests of tho Duke of

Parma . " A number of Austriaus , prisoners to the French , have requested permission to establish themselves iu Algeria . A telegraphic despatch from Naples status , that on tho night of the 9 th inst ., some Swiss troops mutinied in the barracks , and killed the colonel of tho -Jth regiment , and several officers , llaviii " repaired to the royal palace , they were surrounded , but wounded tho General Commander-iii-Chief of the Swiss , and twenty privates . Uoou thisa fire of grape shot was opened ou the mutineerskillin" sevent

, , ylive , and wounding 233 of them . The rest were disarmed ; after this order was restored . The Madrid journals of the 7 th state , that in consequence of the precautions taken by the government- , all fears of revolutionary movements in Andalusia had ceased . The h ' uropa , has arrived at Liverpool with dates from Boston to the 20 th ult . The conducta of 5 , 000 . 000 dollars , which left Mexico ou the 2 Sfch May , was seized bGeneral Robleswho ordered it to be shipped at Saerifioios

y , ; but the commander refused to receive it , notwithstanding the orders of the Euglish and French ministers to do so . The American government have chimed two millions . The . English fleet have been ordered to i era Cruz , and the English subjects have been banished from the capital . Fift y persons have been killed , and fifty or sixtv wounded , by an accident on the Michigan Southern Railway . A telegraphic

communication from New York announces the wreck of the steamer A rgo , off Newfoundland . Crew and passengers saved . INDIA AXD Cms A . —By the overland mail we have dates from Calcutta to June 3 rd , and from Hong-Kong to May 31 st . The disaffection of the Company's troops was abating , and they _ are quietly waiting the result of an appeal to the home government and Parliament . Tho Calcutta volunteer guard had been disembodied by the Govevnov-geneviil ,

in a formal order published in the Gazelle—a proceeding that had caused much discontent among the European residents . On the Queen ' s birthday the Bishop of Calcutta , with the archdeacon and clergy of the metropolis , congratulated the Governor-general on the honours he had won , aud also read an address to Her Majesty setting forth "the views of the clergy upon the relation of the government of India to its subjects in a religious point of view . "' Lord Canning returned thanks for their good wishes for his own health and happinessand expressed his

, gratitude for ' ¦ ' the steady introduction of peace . " The news from China is comparatively unimportant . The British plenipotentiary was about to start for Pekin , escorted by a large force as far as tho Gulf of Petchelee , though it was not expected that any opposition would be made to his progress .

Hoin-: NEWS . —Cabinet councils have been held twice this week at Lord Palmerston ' s residence . Instead of having the satisfaction of recording a diminution in the mortality of the metropolis , we have now to announce a rapid increase in tho rate . Last week the deaths rose to 3220 , exceeding the average by I 2 S . At the last meeting of the Common Council , the Remembrancer informed tho court that a , bill for the better regulation of tlie corporation had been brought into parliament by the Home Secretary , and the bill was ordered to be considered

at the next court . A long discussion took place upon a report from the lunatic asylum committee relative to the erection of a pauper lunatic asylum for the City . The report was referred back to the committee to take suitable steps in the matter . The court then adjourned . John Bardoe , the negro who was tried ami acquitted last week at the Old Bailey for stabbing a police officer , was brought before Mr . Yardley , at the Thames Pojiee-court on Saturday , charged with committing several very serious assaults . It seems that the prisoner , after his discharge ,

had been received into tho Strangers' Home , where during the night he got up and made an indiscriminate attack with a razor upon those who wero asleep in tho same apartment , some of whom are dangerously wounded . A remand was ordered for further inquiry , fears being entertained that the unhappy man ' s intellect has given wav . An apprentice in the employ of Messrs . AVilks . cigar manufacturers , Spitalfiolds , while engaged at his work wantonly blew some tobacco dust into the eyes of a fellow workman . The man , irritated by the pain , struck a lad near him , under the erroneous impression that he was the delinquent . It was found necessary , in consequence of the blow , to remove the poor boy to the hospital , where he died on AA ' ednesd .-iy moraine-.

A cabman named Woodrow , was brought before the magistrate al , Clci-kenwell , charged with a furious assault on Emil y Barker . " It seems that the ruffian had been offended with the unfortunate woman because she refused to go into a public house with him , and holding her with one hand lie inflicted several stabs about the neck and breast . She was conveyed to the University Hospital , where she now lies in a critical state . Mr . Corrie remanded the prisoner for a week . At the Court of Bankruptcy , J . D . Jones , who was lately the proprietor of " His Lordshi ' s

^ p Larder , " in Cheapside , but who left that concern for the purpose of establishing the "City Wellington , " at 0 ( 1 , Fleet street , where ho failed , applied for his . certificate . Tho Commissioner considered the bankrupt had been guilty of reckless aud extravagant trading , aud therefore suspended his certificate ( third class ) for two years , but , as no fraud had been committed , granted protection . Tho Court of Aldermen met on Wednesday , the Lord Mayor in the chair . Mr . E . J . Jonas was elected

governor of Newgate . A petition was presented fromaeonimittee of liverymen , appointed by the Common Hall tor the protection of the rights of the livery , praying the court to assist them in the defence of their rights . A conversation took place thereupon , and eventually tho petition was sent to the corporation inquiry committee of the Court of Common Council . At the coiinuciicement of business yesterday , there was considerable activity in tlie . funds , aud Consols were , at 9 < i £ to -J , but opened at the official period at 90 i . Subsequentl y , sales on ' the part of the public to realize the late advance occurred , and the final quotation was yl-J to 96 . —A . v ry satisfactory report was presented ,-it the meeting of tlie tluioii Bauk of Loudon , and the proprietors appear thoroughly satisfied with the progress their affairs have made .

I . Mi'iuuAi . PAUI . IAJIK . N-T . —In the House or Loans on Monday , Lord AVodehouse made the important communication that her Majesty ' s government had received intelligence that peace had been si gned by the Emperor of Austria and tho Emperor of the t ' reuch , the terms of which wo have stated above . On the motion of Lord Lyndhurst a royal commission was agreed to , lor the purpose of incruiriu" into the mode of taking evidence in the Court of Chancery , and its effects and to report thereon . —On Tuesday some questions relative to the ' dis

- cipline of the volunteer rifle corps led to some discussion , in which several noble lords took part , and to some explanations from . the . Earl of Ripon on behalf of the Government . Lord ' Brougham called attention to tho Coolie immigration to the ' British AVest India islands which under the operation of local acts , bad degenerated into something not far removed from a revival of the slave trade , Tho Duke of Newcastle =-. ;