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The Week.
tried against Fay , a chemist , and in which he recovered £ 100 damages for injuries by having been improperly treated by the defendant , has died , as was predicted at the trial . The jury who sat on the body found that he died from natural causes , accelerated by weakness caused by excessive salivation . At the Mansion House on Monday Mr . Heath , the Consul-General for Italy , waited on the Lord Mayor to make a statement
respecting an impudent attempt of some swindlers in London to cheat a number of Italian prelates and persons of eminence out of sums of money . These chevaliers of industry send letters , Avritten in detestable French , and dated from some imaginary " expedition agency " in an outskirt of London , stating that they had received a valuable box from Valparaiso , or
else-Avhere near the El Dorado , addressed to the person whom they thus favour , and requesting a remittance of £ S for carriage , when it should be forwarded . Mallet and Co ., which is the title of this peculiar firm , seem to have been traced , but condemnatory evidence was Avanting . Tbe British ironclads arrived at Cherbourg on Monday afternoon , and were at
once assigned the place of honour inside the breakwater . There will not be nearly so many French ships of Avar of tho same class present at these naval manoeuvres as was at first supposed . Notwithstanding the raw , Avet , and generally inclement state of the weather on Tuesday , an immense number of Foresters attended at their annual fete at the Crystal Palace .
They all enjoyed themselves better than the skiey influences seemed to promise . The ship Margaret Kerr was lost in February last on Croker's Reef , off the coast of Florida , and the official report on tho subject just presented to the Board of Trade states that James Macdonald , the captain , was drunk at the time the vessel was lost , and that it Avas lost in consequence of his being drunk .
His certificate has , therefore , been suspended for three years . The Board of Trade , at the urgent request of the Lords of the Privy Council , have Avritten to the various railway companies , requesting to be informed what steps have been taken to guard against the infection of cattle Avhile being conveyed in railway
trucks . Directions for purifying these cattle trucks were issued on the 7 th inst ., and the Government shows prompt attention in thus already asking to know Avhat has been done . Another local exhibition of art and manufactures was festively opened on Wednesday at the Agricultural Hall , Islington . It is called the North East London Exhibition . The ceremony was
honoured by the presence of the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Mayor , and several lessor notabilities were on tho platform . Lord Cranworth opened the exhibition in a graceful and sensible address . A large seizure of very bad meat was made on AVednesilay at Whitechapel . The cows , the carcases of which were condemned , came from AValthamstow , ostensibly
to a knacker's , but were in reality driven to a licensed slaughterhouse , and there killed for the purpose of being sold to tho poor of the neighbourhood for food . From what was staled in AVorship-street Police-court , a vast number of diseased cows have recentl y been slaughtered in that neighbourhood for consumption . Quito a panic prevails there .
Contrary to all tho fears of the surgeons , Major de A ere , who was lately shot by a soldier at Chatham , is likely to recover . The officer shows a genuine Christian sentiment in expressing his forgiveness of his assassin ; but the scoundrel Currie , who has thus failed in perpetrating the murder , only expresses regret that he did not succeed . The trial at the Central
Criminal Court of the Frenchman Lafourcade , charged with perjury in the famous cause of Bouillon against Valentin , which has occupied the Court two days , terminated in a verdict of
guilty , and Lafourcade was sentenced to eighteen months ' imprisonment . Colonel AVaugb lias now got fairly out of the hands of his creditors . He was discharged on Saturdaylast by the Court of Bankruptcy , but he Avas nevertheless detained by creditors on three several writs of capias . At judge's chambers , Baron Martin decided that , as the debts Avere gone ,
the detainers must go Avith them ; and the colonel is free . The arrival of the Great Eastern at Crookhaven puts an end to tie prolonged suspense as to the fate of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable . The cable is a failure , at least for the present , but there are still some grounds for hoping that ii may yet be made the means of electric communication between this country
and America . The conjectures—the probability of which has been so often pointed out in our columns—as to the cable having been snapped while the cause of the loss of insulation was being sought out , prove to be correct . It was while hauling in to search for faults that the severance took place , and the cable disappeared beneath the surface of the Atlantic .
Buoys moored with hundreds of yards of rope mark the locality where the end of the cable was lost . The Great Eastern was obliged to discontinue her efforts to recover the cable after the 4 th inst ., in consequence of continued bad weather , until the 7 th , when a second unsuccessful attempt to raise it by means of grapnels failed . On the 10 th and llth other attempts were
made with liko result , aud the stock of rope on board being then exhausted , the vessels commenced their return voyage , with the object of procuring more rope . On the whole the news is better than many persons expected , as it does not altogether exclude hopes that the end of the cable may once more be got above the water , and the link to Newfoundland completed . Mr . Tidd Pratt attended before the Lord Mayor A-esterdav , in order to put the working classes on their guard
against a certain friendly society which Avas called the Garibaldi Mutual Life Assurance and Sick Fund Friendly Society . He quoted largely from its prospectus statements which he said were not founded on fact , and added his belief that the society was constituted not to benefit the working classes , but to put money in the pockets of the promoters .
FOREIGN' INTELLIGENCE . —The Emperor Napoleon left Plonibieres on Tuesday morning , the 8 th inst ., for the Camp at Chalons . The Paris correspondent of one of our morning contemporaries , records the following strange rumour now prevailing in Paris , and which , in all probability , has originated more in the dearth of interesting news in that city than in any
leaking out of political secrets and arrangements . In the event of the present Emperor of Mexico having no offspring , Napoleon III . has decided upon offering the succession to the Transatlantic throne to a son of King Leopold , the King on his part agreeing to a transfer of Belgium to France , and the removal of the French frontiers to the Scheldt . In view , it may be
presumed , to the ultimate withdrawal of the French troops from Rome , the Pontifical Government has decided upon increasing the strength of its army . One thousand men , it is said , have already been engaged in foreign countries . Satisfactory news is published from Mexico by the official organs in Paris . It is stated that the French have retaken Urnpau ;
overthrown Publita ' s band of guerillas , killing the chief and a large number of followers ; routed Arelaga , and , generally , broken the neck of the opposition to the Imperial rule in the southern provinces of the empires . It is added that Negrete Avas deserted by half his soldiers during his retreat . Owing to the increasing illness of the King of Spain the court will
return soon to Madrid , and consequently the intended interview between Queen Isabella and the Emperor Napoleon will have to be abandoned . A few days since a grand ceremony took
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Week.
tried against Fay , a chemist , and in which he recovered £ 100 damages for injuries by having been improperly treated by the defendant , has died , as was predicted at the trial . The jury who sat on the body found that he died from natural causes , accelerated by weakness caused by excessive salivation . At the Mansion House on Monday Mr . Heath , the Consul-General for Italy , waited on the Lord Mayor to make a statement
respecting an impudent attempt of some swindlers in London to cheat a number of Italian prelates and persons of eminence out of sums of money . These chevaliers of industry send letters , Avritten in detestable French , and dated from some imaginary " expedition agency " in an outskirt of London , stating that they had received a valuable box from Valparaiso , or
else-Avhere near the El Dorado , addressed to the person whom they thus favour , and requesting a remittance of £ S for carriage , when it should be forwarded . Mallet and Co ., which is the title of this peculiar firm , seem to have been traced , but condemnatory evidence was Avanting . Tbe British ironclads arrived at Cherbourg on Monday afternoon , and were at
once assigned the place of honour inside the breakwater . There will not be nearly so many French ships of Avar of tho same class present at these naval manoeuvres as was at first supposed . Notwithstanding the raw , Avet , and generally inclement state of the weather on Tuesday , an immense number of Foresters attended at their annual fete at the Crystal Palace .
They all enjoyed themselves better than the skiey influences seemed to promise . The ship Margaret Kerr was lost in February last on Croker's Reef , off the coast of Florida , and the official report on tho subject just presented to the Board of Trade states that James Macdonald , the captain , was drunk at the time the vessel was lost , and that it Avas lost in consequence of his being drunk .
His certificate has , therefore , been suspended for three years . The Board of Trade , at the urgent request of the Lords of the Privy Council , have Avritten to the various railway companies , requesting to be informed what steps have been taken to guard against the infection of cattle Avhile being conveyed in railway
trucks . Directions for purifying these cattle trucks were issued on the 7 th inst ., and the Government shows prompt attention in thus already asking to know Avhat has been done . Another local exhibition of art and manufactures was festively opened on Wednesday at the Agricultural Hall , Islington . It is called the North East London Exhibition . The ceremony was
honoured by the presence of the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Mayor , and several lessor notabilities were on tho platform . Lord Cranworth opened the exhibition in a graceful and sensible address . A large seizure of very bad meat was made on AVednesilay at Whitechapel . The cows , the carcases of which were condemned , came from AValthamstow , ostensibly
to a knacker's , but were in reality driven to a licensed slaughterhouse , and there killed for the purpose of being sold to tho poor of the neighbourhood for food . From what was staled in AVorship-street Police-court , a vast number of diseased cows have recentl y been slaughtered in that neighbourhood for consumption . Quito a panic prevails there .
Contrary to all tho fears of the surgeons , Major de A ere , who was lately shot by a soldier at Chatham , is likely to recover . The officer shows a genuine Christian sentiment in expressing his forgiveness of his assassin ; but the scoundrel Currie , who has thus failed in perpetrating the murder , only expresses regret that he did not succeed . The trial at the Central
Criminal Court of the Frenchman Lafourcade , charged with perjury in the famous cause of Bouillon against Valentin , which has occupied the Court two days , terminated in a verdict of
guilty , and Lafourcade was sentenced to eighteen months ' imprisonment . Colonel AVaugb lias now got fairly out of the hands of his creditors . He was discharged on Saturdaylast by the Court of Bankruptcy , but he Avas nevertheless detained by creditors on three several writs of capias . At judge's chambers , Baron Martin decided that , as the debts Avere gone ,
the detainers must go Avith them ; and the colonel is free . The arrival of the Great Eastern at Crookhaven puts an end to tie prolonged suspense as to the fate of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable . The cable is a failure , at least for the present , but there are still some grounds for hoping that ii may yet be made the means of electric communication between this country
and America . The conjectures—the probability of which has been so often pointed out in our columns—as to the cable having been snapped while the cause of the loss of insulation was being sought out , prove to be correct . It was while hauling in to search for faults that the severance took place , and the cable disappeared beneath the surface of the Atlantic .
Buoys moored with hundreds of yards of rope mark the locality where the end of the cable was lost . The Great Eastern was obliged to discontinue her efforts to recover the cable after the 4 th inst ., in consequence of continued bad weather , until the 7 th , when a second unsuccessful attempt to raise it by means of grapnels failed . On the 10 th and llth other attempts were
made with liko result , aud the stock of rope on board being then exhausted , the vessels commenced their return voyage , with the object of procuring more rope . On the whole the news is better than many persons expected , as it does not altogether exclude hopes that the end of the cable may once more be got above the water , and the link to Newfoundland completed . Mr . Tidd Pratt attended before the Lord Mayor A-esterdav , in order to put the working classes on their guard
against a certain friendly society which Avas called the Garibaldi Mutual Life Assurance and Sick Fund Friendly Society . He quoted largely from its prospectus statements which he said were not founded on fact , and added his belief that the society was constituted not to benefit the working classes , but to put money in the pockets of the promoters .
FOREIGN' INTELLIGENCE . —The Emperor Napoleon left Plonibieres on Tuesday morning , the 8 th inst ., for the Camp at Chalons . The Paris correspondent of one of our morning contemporaries , records the following strange rumour now prevailing in Paris , and which , in all probability , has originated more in the dearth of interesting news in that city than in any
leaking out of political secrets and arrangements . In the event of the present Emperor of Mexico having no offspring , Napoleon III . has decided upon offering the succession to the Transatlantic throne to a son of King Leopold , the King on his part agreeing to a transfer of Belgium to France , and the removal of the French frontiers to the Scheldt . In view , it may be
presumed , to the ultimate withdrawal of the French troops from Rome , the Pontifical Government has decided upon increasing the strength of its army . One thousand men , it is said , have already been engaged in foreign countries . Satisfactory news is published from Mexico by the official organs in Paris . It is stated that the French have retaken Urnpau ;
overthrown Publita ' s band of guerillas , killing the chief and a large number of followers ; routed Arelaga , and , generally , broken the neck of the opposition to the Imperial rule in the southern provinces of the empires . It is added that Negrete Avas deserted by half his soldiers during his retreat . Owing to the increasing illness of the King of Spain the court will
return soon to Madrid , and consequently the intended interview between Queen Isabella and the Emperor Napoleon will have to be abandoned . A few days since a grand ceremony took