The Week.

in custody . -A number of asses of stack burning on an extensive scale is reported from North Lincolnshire . They are vehemently suspected to be the work of incendiaries , and fears of a repetition of tbe destructive fires of last year are entertained . On Tuesday there ivas a cheap excursion from Calais to the Crystal Palace , the fare , including admission , being only

five francs . During the afternoon , the Prince and Princess of of AVales , accompanied by some of their Royal relatives , Avent doAvn to Sydenham aud svandered through the palace , enjoying themselves , apparently , as well as anybody else—there being no reason why they shouldn't . In tbe evening , notwithstanding the heat , they went to the Adelphi Theatre to witness fche performance

of Mr . Jefferson in " Rip Van Winkle . " A small but influential meeting of the inhabitants of Twickenham and its vicinity AA'as held on Tuesday , to consider what measures should be taken to remedy the present state of the Thames , which everybody agrees is intolerable at that point , Giving to the diminution of water consequent on the AvithdraAval of so much for

thirsty-London . A committee , formed of some of the most distinguished residents , ivas appointed to devise a remedy for an unquestionable nuisance . Tlie Davenport Brothers have come to grief in Paris . On Tuesday they were giving a public exhibition , when one of the audience discovered their modus operandi , as indeed ho might easily , after the exposure of the

precious pair here . There was a I-DAA ' , whereupon tbe police cleared the room , and the Davenports were compelled to refund the entrance-money . The affair looks like a repetition of their Liverpool experiences . The Ockhain elopement case is finished . George Smith , the groom who carried off Miss Crosse , or Avas carried off by her , Avas brought up at tbe Wandsworth Police-court on AVednesday morning on remand , to answer the charge of abduction . No prosecutor appeared , however , and

Smith was discharged . ItAvas stated that the young girl ' s father had withdrawn from the prosecution after hearing the evidence shobadgiveu . Shohadgone home toiler father ' s houseagain . The Gazelle on Tuesday night contained an Order in Council further proroguing Parliament from the 1 st November , on which clay it was appointed to meet , until the 23 rd of the same

month ; also similar orders respecting the meeting of Convocation . A married woman , Sarah Drewe , has been committed "b y tbe Dillingham bench for the murder of her child , four Aveeks old . The wretched mother deliberately threw the infant into a privy , where it was of course at once suffocated in the soil . It is charitable to suppose the statement true which says

the Avoman AA-HS under mental aberration at the time . A man named M'Intosh has been fined five pounds and costs for attempting to kiss a young- lady in a carriage of the South Eastern Railway Company while the train was passing through a tunnel . English and Scotch hides , horns , hoofs , and other parts of dead oxen , were last week prohibited from being sent to

Ireland . An Order in Council , however , appeared permitting the transference to that Island of such articles imported here from India , South America , and Australia . Mr . Henley has made a very moderate and sensible speech at Bicester . Eschewing politics he bespoke tho co-operation of the breeders of stock with the Government measures to check the cattle

disease , and indulged in anticipations of good root-feeding for the animals from this year ' s green crops , Avhich he said AVOUICI help to keep down the price of meat , which the disease would certainly send up . The right hon . gentleman also bore testimony to the desire of the agricultural labourers to improve their children in education and position , if they had only wages enough to enable them . On Wednesday night Mr . Layard , M . P ., presided at a musical meeting at the Agricultural Hall , Islington . He made a speech in which he

pointed oat the advantages of local permanent museums of art and science in different quarters of the metropolis , and urged the Avorking classes to accept tbe offer of the Government to take part of fche "Brompton boilers" for this purpose . The Government , he said , would also give duplicates of interesting works . Mr . Layard is against opening the National Collections in the evenings . -An exhibition of art and industry Avas opened

on AA ednesday at Reading , and the Bishop of Oxford delivered the address on the occasion . The objects exhibited are principally works of art , collected for the occasions from various quarters , ancl the purpose of the exhibition is to bring nearer to the eyes and minds of the people of Berkshire the beauties and influence of these productions . The Bishop ' s speech ivas

commonplace . A statue to . Tenner has been raised in Boulogne . This graceful tribute to au Englishman is the result of the combined exertions of the Boulogne municipality and a society of avails in Paris . FOREIGN IXTELLIGEJ - . —The Italian Parliament is desotved . The elections will take place on the 22 nd of October , and fche new Parliament Avill open on the 15 th of November . — - —A telegram from Vienna states that Earl Russell has replied to the communication annonncin

lordship is stated to have expressed his satisfaction that the arrangement is only provisional and transitory—another Avay , in fact , of expressing dissatisfaction . Prance has taken alarm in respect to the cattle plague . The minisier of agriculture has addressed a report on the subject . The result is that decrees have been published , prohibiting the importation cf of cattle , hides , & c , from England or any of the countries

where the disease is supposed to exist . ——Fire follows the cholera at Constantinople . On Tuesday evening the Sth inst ., a fire broke out in Stamboul . A telegram dated the 7 th says thafc up to that time about 2 , 500 bouses , mosqv . es , vmd public buildings had been destroyed , and the conflagration Avas still spreading . It is said the cholera has nearly

disappeared , only nine deaths being reported on Tuesday . The conversion of the Internal Debt of Turkey is reported to be progressing up to Monday last ; the total amount of all kinds of stock converted was £ 3 , 500 , 000 . The Nord Deutsche Zeitung asserts that Austria and Prussia have resolved to separate the Customs administration of Scbleswig and Holstein , and to give them a distinct chief management . This is a curious commentary on tbe result of the Avar Avhich ivas waged by

Austria and Prussia to maintain tho principle of the inseparable unity of Scbleswig and Holstein . The Italian papers report the death , after a protracted illness , of the wife of Louis Kossuth . The Queen of Spain has received Prince Amacleus , Duke of Aosta , son of King Victor Emmanuel . The Italian Ambassador was received at the same time . The Prince dined ivith the King and Queen in tbe evening . There ia again a . talk of a

project of marriage between Prince Amadeus and tbe Princess Isabella , eldest daughter of the Queen of Spain . Prance , ifc seems , has given Austria and Prussia a sharp rebuke , although nofc in a direct form , touching their Schlewig-Holstein compact . No protest has been addressed to the German great Powers ; but the French Government has despatched a circular

note to its diplomatic agents analysing the character of the Gastein convention in a style ivhich must make glad the heart of Denmark . A Brussels paper professes to publish the text of the despatch . According to this version fche French Government declares the Gastein Convention indefensible , Avhether viewed us a violation of treaty arrangements , a betrayal of

German national interests , a wrong done to a rightful claimant , or an infringement of the principle of nationalities . The one onlv satisfactory feature ivhich the French Govern-