The Week.

wife , took place at Newgate on Monday morning . The horrible event appeared to excite more than ordinary interest amongst the lowest classes of the population . Many hundreds of these persons had taken up their places in front of the gallows before three o'clock in the morning , and their numbers continued to increase until the Old Bailey and the adjacent streets were crowded , for the most part , with noisy rabble . Cogan was hanged at the usual hour ,

and died protesting his innocence to the last . The coroner's investigation of the Bilston tragedy has been brought to a close , the jury returning a verdict of " Wilful murder" against four out of the seven men in custody—namely , Jones , Brandrick , Maddocks , and Jukes . The whole seven , however , have been committed for trial by the local bench . Maddocks , in his statement , asserts that Brandrick and Jones alone entered the deceased's house—the murder being actually committed by the former . Maddocks himself

, according to his own version of the affair , remained outside to give . an alarm if necessary . The charge of perjury against the man Saunders , who was the principal witness in the case of the AVestminster murder , has been disposed of . Mr . Arnold , in accordance with the determination he had expressed , examined the witnesses , who swore that Saunders did not enter the court at the time of the murder . The magistrate decided that the evidence did not justify

Wm in granting a warrant for the apprehension of Saunders ; but he made the gratifying announcement that the granting of the reprive was wholly unconnected with these proceedings . Maloney's sentence , he intimated , would he commuted in consequence of the recommendation of the jury . A man named Dugdale , one of the most notorious of the Holywell street gang , was tried at the Middlesex sessions , for publishing obscene works . The prisoner made a rambling defence , but the

Judge vindicated morality , and gave a warning lesson to those who are still engaged in this nefarious trade by sentencing Dugdale to two years' imprisonment with hard labour . Ifc is stated that he has carried on the disgusting business during forty years , a great portion of which he has speht in gaol . Two young ladies have been examined at Bow-street , on a charge of stealing hooks in the Strand . Two cases were gone into , and the evidence against them was conclusive . Mr . Humphreys , who appeared on their hebalf , admitted that they had committed the robberies , hut

attributed their dishonesty to a disease called kleptomania— " a strange and inexplicable desire to take what does not belong to them . " The learned counsel stated that they moved in a high social position , the names and addresses which they had given to the police being fictitious . Mr . Henry refused to deal with the case himself , but committed the prisoners for trial . A conference of employers of labour , held at AVolverhampton , to consider the best means of promoting the moral and social improvement of the

working classes of Staffordshire , deserves special attention . The proceedings appear to have been characterised by an earnest and practical spirit . Sir AVilliam Armstrong has replied to a recent attack upon his invention . One of the allegations made by a persistent opponent of the Armstrong principle was that the 12-pounder has been so altered that " the inventor himself will hardl y be able to recognise his offspring . " Sir William asserts that this gun has undergone no alteration whatever in form or dimensions since its

first introduction , with the single exception of an improvement in the construction of the sights . He admits that the vent pieces may be weak , but adds that the fault is one not of principle but of construction , and can readily be remedied . He has no objection to the fullest inquiry into the merits and demerits of his invention : - " hut the fact is , " he remarks , " that the whole subject , even to the minutest detail , is , and always has been , subject to tho control of the Ordnance Select Committee , who are fully acquainted with

every particular . At a meeting of Surrey magistrates , held at Kingston , Major Penhryn , who has been elected chairman , stated that it was intended to prefer a bill of indictment against Mr . Train and several members of the Lambeth vestry , for unlawfully obstructing the thoroughfare by laying down a tramway in the Keunington-road . The chaplain at AA andsworth House of Correction , in his report , alludes to drunkenness as the principal source of crime , and he suggests that public-houses should be

subjected to greater restrictions than at present . The Wanior made another short trip on Monday . Starting from her anchorage at Spithead , she proceeded down channel some distance , running at an easy speed . The weather was fine , but , nevertheless , the great iron-clad ship rolled and pitched like any other vessel , giving unmistakeable proof of her buoyancy . Her engines worked exceedingly well , and she answered her helm with perfect ease . The official trial of her speed will take place to-morrow .

FOEEIGN INTELLIGENCE . —Another royal visitor to the Emperor Napoleonhas reached Compiegne , the King of Holland having arrived there on Saturday evening . He was to pay a visit to Paris during his sojourn in France , which will he a longer one than the King of Prussia's , as he was not expected to return to the Hague befote

today . The Independence Beige , on the authority of a Paris correspondent , pretends to describe the nature of the political conversations between the Emperor and King AVilliam at Compiegne . According to this statement , the Emperor took pains to explaiu that his Italian policy was directed to the maintainence of peace and of fche European equilibrium , and pointed oufc that the recognition of the Italian kingdom by Prussia had now become an absolute

necessity for that equilibrium . Then , with respect to the direct relations between Prussia and France , the Emperor expressed his hope that these might be drawn closer and special , as by the conclusion of a treaty of commerce between the two countries . Finally , he congratulated his guest upon his conduct in the Danish question , whereby he had reconciled the need of the world for the maintenance of peace with the duties imposed upon Prussia bits peculiar position in Germany .

y So much surmise , doubt , and contradiction has arisen out ofthe cloud of political pamphlets lately published in Paris , that the Government , to withdraw itself from suspicion of complicity with the anonymous writers , has resolved to take into consideration the adoption of measures against them . Such is the announcement made by yesterday ' s Moniteur . The Debats contains a letter wliich is considerd to be an official explanation of the step taken hthe Comte de Paris and the Due de Chartres in entering the

y American Federal ranks . It states that these princes had originally no intention of enlisting in the Federal army , but the martial spirit hy which they found themselves surrounded impelled them to become actors in the great events which were preparing , and which , says the Orleanist journal , may afford to the young Princes the opportunity of enrolling themselves in the glorious list of their countrymen who shed their blood for American independence , wherein shine the names of Rochambeau , Dumas , Segur , and

Lafayette . A terrible calamity is reported from France , department of the Gard . In consequence of a severe storm , a mine at Lalle became flooded , so that the sides collapsed , and 117 men were buried alive . At the date of the last despatch , energetic efforts were in progress to rescue these unfortunates , with some hopes of ' success . The coronation of the King of Prussia was to take place afc Konigsburg yesterday ( Friday ) . Among the representatives of foreign rulers at the coronation , the Duke of Magenta , Marshal MacMahon , was to sustain the generous character of France , and exhibit the regard of the Emperor for King William hy an immense outlay . A despatch from Naples announces that

ijeneral Uiaklim has " clehnitely resigned the . Lieutenancy of the Neapolitan provinces , and will leave Naples at the end of the month . General Delia Marmora has taken the command of the Italian troops in the Southern Provinces . General Cialdini , it is said , is about to publish a declaration of his reasons for resigning ; the principal being the suppression of brigandage and the re-establishment of order in the southern provinces . This result of his administration , if true , will be hailed with

pleasure by all well-wishers of the new Italian kingdom , while it confers lustre on the fame of the gallant general . The departure of Garibaldi from Caprera is denied . The Italian Government is proceeding to infuse a little order and homogeneity into the internal administration . A number of decrees , liaving this object in view , have been signed by the King , under wliich the several peculiar administrations of the annexed provinces , hitherto left untouchedwill disappearand a uniform administration by royal

, , governors substituted . A short correspondence that passed some weeks since between Mr . Cobden and Signor Minghetti , at that time Minister of the Interior of Victor Emmanuel , contributes another contradiction of the report , endorsed by Mr . Roebuck , that a cession of the Island of Sardinia to France was contemplated . Signor Minghetti declares emphatically that such a thing was never contemplated . Condemnation of Father Passaglia's book on the Italian question and the temporal authority has been pronounced

by the Congregation of the Index . The father was refused liberty to defend his hook . The example of Father Passaglia has had its effect , and schism is reported as rapidly spreading amongst the clergy at Rome at the obstinacy of the Pope and his councillors . Meanwhile a reign of terror on a small scale appears to have set in , and some ecclesiastics have been seized and imprisoned as suspected , while the apartments and papers of others have been rummaged . We have news from Lisbon to the 7 th inst . The new stamp

law was still loudly complained of by the mercantile community . The vintage has proved much more favourable than last year , but there is a deficiency in the grain crops . There is nothing new in politics . A noteworthy step has been taken by the Legislative Council of the free city of Frankfort . This city is one of the Federal garrisons , and there have been quartered in it since 1848 about five thousand Prussian , Austrian , and Bavarian soldiers . Although the presence of a numerous garrison is generally deemed a benefit by those amongst whom the soldiers spend their money , yet the feeling of the Frankforters seems to he the other way . They do not like this garrison in their city , and relying upon the provisions of