The Week.

that will bring about its fulfilment . Such an announcement is all the more satisfactory , as increasing preparations for war continue to be reported from every part ofthe French and Austrian dominions . The malady of the King of Naples is becoming more aggravated . It is believed that he will not survive many days . The disease has attacked the chest , accompanied by vomiting and stupor . " In the meantime , " writes the correspondent of the Dailg News , " Naples is Avaking up . I have heard already of the circulation of addresses demanding a constitution .

Even the royal princes do not conceal their impression that the country can no longer be governed as it has been ; aud should tho King of Sardinia continue as he is , I am disposed to think that the constitutional party will raise its head . The neiv Canadian tariff has passed through both houses , and received the assent of the governor-general , It extends further the principle of protection , increasing the duties on cotton goods , metals , books , & c . The ad valorem principle is adopted , to the exclusion of specifics , except in the case of whisky . There have been rumours that Sir Edmund Head is to be withdrawnand that he is to he rewarded

, with a peerage on going home . The Niagara has brought news from Boston to the 6 th , and Halifax to the Sth . There was ' great excitement at Philadelphia about a fugitive slave case . The American government wore taking vigorous measures to settle the Nicaraguan questions . No change in the various markets . A commission of naval ofiicers has been appointed hy the Secretary of the American Navy to visit the various yards and investigate abuses existing in that branch of the public servicewith the view of applying a remed . ' The accounts from South

, y America are deplorable . There is not one of tho republics Avhich is not in a state of anarchy or revolution , trade paralysed , agriculture ruined , the country overrun by banditti . Civil Avar , from being au occasional calamity , has IIOAV become chronic . One adventurer succeeds another in the command of the hostile armies in rapid succession . In fact , the disease which , is killing Mexico has spread over the whole continent south of her . AVhat will be the end of it it would be difficult to say . Calcutta news is of slight interest . Nana Sahib , the Begum , and their followers ,

are still lying perdu in the great forests at the foot of the Himalayas , making no movement towards the south . It is said that the Begum is trying to negoeiate for an asylum Avith Jung Bahadoor , or through him to obtain some merciful considerafrom the governor-general of Iudia . The Nana can expect nothing , and is no doubt seeking for some place AA-here he can escape to , ivith life and means to give trouble in the future if he can . He ivill find this difficult .- —On Thursday evening Henri Dalton , alias Tighe , the person ivho gave the information ivhich led to the Phoenix Club arrests on the 12 th of December last , and for whose apprehension a reivard was offered , ivas arrested . A very bad half-crown from George A . G was

received by the magistrate at Marlborough-street for the poor-box , an acknoivledgment being requested iu the Times . No notice being taken of this , a second letter was seut ^ expressive of the ivriter ' s surprise that the gift had not been duly noticed , supposing it had not come to hand . A worse half-crown , says the reporter , can scarcely be imagined . Joseph Adolphus ZalmanoAvecz , a clerk in the service of Mr . Vincent Arachsiugi , Austin-friars , AVUS placed at the bar at Guildhall Policecourt , to answer the charge of having absconded with a sum of money amounting to nearly £ 1 , 700 , the proceeds of tivo cheques that had been entrusted to him to

get cashed . A portion of the money ivas found by the officer Avho apprehended the prisoner , but £ 1 , 000 is still unrecovered . Alderman Phillips remanded the defendant for additional evidence . The examination of Edward Mortimer and Thomas Robert Marshall , charged with the illegal sale of army commissions , was resumed before Mr . Henry , at BoAA' -street , on Monday . Some correspondence Avas read shelving the connecion a person named Eieke had with the defendants in the transaction . His royal highness the commander in chief and his military secretarySir Charles Yorkealso gave evidence at considerable length regarding the

, , application , by Mr . Cunningham , for a commission without purchase . Finally , both defendants were committed for trial ; bail , as before , being accepted . The naked body of a mm was discovered last week under under the East Cliff , Ramsgate , under circumstances of grave suspicion . He Avas stabbed to the heart , one arm was broken , and his left hand cutoff afc the wrist . The whole affair is involved in mysteiy , bufc the most probable solution is that the unfortunate