The Week.

filed his accounts , and the further hearing was adjourned . A numerously-attended meeting of the East India Association was held on the 13 th inst ., for the purpose of discussing the advisability of presenting a memorial to the Secretary of State to facilitate the admission of tho natives of India into the Indian Civil Service . Lord Lyvedcn presided . After an

interesting discussion a memorial to the Secretary of State was adopted , and its presentation was entrusted to a standing committee of the association . The death of the Earl of Mayo leaves a vacancy in tho ranks of tho Irish representative peers . His lordship was a Tory , and there is little doubt that his successor in the House of Lords will bo a Tory also .

Lord Naas , of course , succeeds to the title , but not to tho seat in the Upper House . Tlie peers of Ireland will have to select a representative . The mode of election is somewhat curious-All the peers entitled to vote in tho election of a representative send in their claims to vote to the Hanaper Oilico in Dublin . There the claim is examined , aud if allowed , a voting paper is

sent to the claimant , who must fill it up with tho name of tho peer for whom he votes , and return it by . 1 certain day . As the voters in this farce of an election are mostly Tories , the political character of the successor to tho late Earl of Mayo may be easily prognosticated . It is not likely that Lord Nans will he the chosen one . The Government want him in the

Lower House , and there is no small probability that when his services can be dispensed with there he will get an English peerage in his own right . A new building , the church of the Holy Trinity , Barking-road , Plaistow , has been

consecrated by tbe Bishop of Rochester . By the completion and opening of this church , what may bo called tho crowning work of the Plaistow mission is completed , though much still remains to be done . The . new church is situated in tho centre of a largo and extending district , and no doubt will accomplish much good among the poor residents , none of whom ,

as in too many cases , will be excluded , for by the deed of patronage and sentence of consecration all the seats in the church will be free and unappropriated for over , for rich and poor alike . At a luncheon , after the consecration , the services rendered by Mr . Anthony Brady , in raising up the new church , anel , in fact , creating the parish of which it is to form the

centre , were fully acknowledged . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —Agrarianism has found its way into the Papal States . A few days ago a numerous body of peasantry marched from Velletri to a place called Campetto , to take possession of some land which they wished to cultivate . Tiro authorities dispersed the assemblage , but not before a serious

not had taken place . The official journal , which reports these proceedings , shrewdly suspects that the rioters had a more serious aim than that which they professed . The French have annexed six of the Western Provinces of Cochin China . This , we are gravely informed , has been done with the unanimous consent ofthe people . Admiral de la Grandiere , however ,

does not say whether a popular vote was taken . The French Government lias been moved to annex this semi-barbarous country because it is a refuge of pirates and agitators . The six provinces are now incorparatcd with the territory of France and several millions of Asiatics have now the honour of boinn-French subjects . Italy is sorely in want of money . Signor

Rataz / . i , in the debate on thc Church Property Conversion Bill , in the Italian Senate , made a statement on the subject . The Church property is to be sold in small Jots to prevent its passing into the hands of a hv ' - ' e company , and the Government hopes that a hi gh price will be realised . Meantime a fresh issue of bonds is to take place . The * e the Government

believes will be taken up by Italians , without the necessity of appealing to foreign capitalists . A misunderstanding has arisen between Austria and Italy on two points . The first relates to the partial return of the Venetian archives and objects of art removed to Austria when Venice was evacuated . The plenipotentiaries appointed to arrange the matter had come to

an agreement when the Italian Government refused its sanction to tho arrangement . In consequence of this the Italian plenipotentiary resigned his powers , adding that lie eras convinced of the justice 0 ? Austria ' s claim . The second point is as to the boundary between Friuli and Gortz . The commissioners appointed to settle tho matter havo not been able to eome to an

arrangement . These statements are made by Vienna papers , and may , therefore , not precisely represent the exact position of affairs . It is stated that Garibaldi has forthe present stopped thc preparations for a rising in Rome . This is owing to the firm stand which tho Italian Government have made as to keeping to the September Convention . Count Bismarck has

returned to Berlin . On his way there he had his fingers severely crashed by the unexpected closing of thc door of the railway carriage in which ho way travelling The French excursionists to Denmark have arrived at Copenhagen . They seem to have had a warm welcome . The Burgomaster of Ivorsor addressed them in French , and assured them

that if the Danes were not numerous they had kindly feelings for the French nation . The Italian Senate has agreed to the principal clauses in the Church Property Conversion Bill , and therefore the matter is now virtually settled . Clearly the

cloud which a feu- days ago hung over the relations between France and Prussia is passing away , and peace is heing made sure . Tho Prussian journals insist that when the Emperor Napoleon leaves Salzburg he will have an interview with the King of Prussia at Coblenz . What is more , they all speak of the projected interview as being a mark of the improved

relations between the two countries . In this direction , too , it may be noticed that a French paper says the differences between Prussia and Denmark are in a fair way of settlement . The Paris press is troubled as to what are the announcements which the Monilev . r is to make . The Journal of Paris insists that the important matter will be a letter from the Emperor Napoleon ,

urging the immediate carrying out of the reforms which he has projected . Another Paris paper ' , however , insists that the statement will refer to nothing more important than the laying out of parochial roads . It is announced that the Emperor and Empress of the French will leave Chalons for Salzburg on the 18 th . They will only travel to Augsburg

on that day , and resume their journey the next morning . —The French excursionists to Denmark are having a thoroughly warm reception there . Wherever they go they are feted , and Danish orators vie with each other in praise of France . The Fontainebleau murder case has been finished . The jury found the woman Frigard guilty of killing Madame Mortens , with

extenuating circumstances . AA'hat these are it is not easy to see . The woman Frigard had acted as procuress for Madame Mortens , and finally killed her—not in passion , but coolly and for the sake of her money . Frigard is sentenced to penal servitude for life .

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