The Week.

fourteen pounds . He is sixty-two years old , while his amiable wife has reached the more mature ago of seventy-eight . She has been discharged from custody on promising that she woulel not re-enter the dwelling of her sick husband . Sergeant Dransfleld , the musketry instructor of the 1 st Tower Hamlets Volunteers , who was accidentally killed , was buried on Sunday last at Bow cemetery . Most of the metropolitan volunteer

regiments sent representatives to the funeral , which was wholly of a military character . The procession of volunteers was fully a half mile in length . Earl de Grey and Ripon ' and Sir Charles Wood were present at tho banquet given by the Mayor of Ripon on Friday night , the 13 th inst . Earl Do Grey , in a speech which he made , sang the praises of the Goverinent

with good heart . Sir Charles AA ood was as impassive as ever . He thought that "upon the whole" the general election was in favour of the Goverinent . " He did not think that either Fenianiam in Ireland or the cattle plague in England afforded any cause of great anxiety . " The inquest on the young woman Caroline Milner , who was found dead in her bed in it

lodging-house in Little Di'ummond-street , Sfc . Pancras , was resumed on Monday . There were suspicions that tbe woman had come by her death through foul practices . The evidence , however , proved that death had resulted from natural causes , and a verdict to that effect was returned by the jury . The inquest on the man Mindle , who died suddenly in a coffee-house

in Bloomsbury , was resumed on Monday . Ifc was suspected that Mindle had been poisoned , but a post-mortem examination failed to discover any signs of poison in tbe stomach . The jury returned a verdict of death from natural causes . At tho meeting of the City Sewers Commissioners on Tuesday a deputation of owners of slaughterhouses in Newgate-market attended to protest against the proposed removal of the

slaughter-houses within the City of London . These , it seems , from Dr . Lethoby ' s report , are 58 in number , and one and all -are said to be of considerable annoyance to the inhabitants of the neighbourhoods in which they are situated . The protest ofthe deputation so far prevailed that ifc was resolved to refer the question back to tbe general purposes committee . A letter

from the clerk of tha council with reference to the disposal of the bodies of cattle dying of the plague was read and referred to the select committee . Dr . Letbeby's report showed that in the past week 4 , 5001 b . of meat had been condemned . AVhst had been done to its would-be vendors . The Lord Mayor on Tuesday held an examination in the case of the persons charged

with the extensive frauds upon foreigners . The case against Barthe being completed by reading formally the correspondence between the prisoner and the Bishop of Hileles ' neim , he was committed for trial , bail being refused . The two Jourdains , against whom the evidence is nofc yet sufficiently detailed in court , were remanded until next week , when the case will

doubtless be handed over to the November sessions of the Central Criminal Court . On Tuesday morning the fronts of three houses situated in Limehouse fell into the street , killing a child who was passing . The occupants of the bouses , it seems , had been forewarned , so that the imminence of the danger was not unknown . A serious responsibility , therefore , appears to

rest upon those who allowed passengers to come within danger . The owner of the houses employed a number of men to clear away the ruins . One man would probably have been enough to keep the roadway clear . At any rate , if there was time to warn the inmates there ivas surely time to either shore up the houses or to keep even children beyond risk .

It is with sincere regret that we announce the death of Lord Palmerston . Tho health of the noble Premier had for some < % s caused great anxiety amomrst his own circle , bufc on

Monday and Tuesday he had so far rallied as to induce the expectation of his recovery . On Tuesday evening , however , "his condition altered suddenly for the worse ; " dangerous symptoms supervened ; he gradually sank during the night , and expired on AA'ednesday morning afc a quarter to eleven o ' clock . The immediate cause of his lordship's death was nofc gout , but a severe cold , resulting in internal inflammation ,

which , afc his advanced age , could not be combated . He ( fed within two days of his eighty-first year . The strike at Cramlington has assumed very formidable proportions . The military have been called out , although no further evictions have taken place . On Tuesday six of the lioters were charged at Newcastle with unlawful assembly anel disturbance of the peace ,

and having pleaded not guilty , were committed for trial at Alnwick sessions . AVhen good sense is beginning to prevail in the old field of contest in Staffordshire , it is a pity that an effort should not be made in the north to bring together musters and men , the latter now having been on strike for more than seventeen weeks . On AVednesday one of the

inspectors of cattle appointed under tbe Order in Council applied to the Westminster magistrate for a warrant to break into certain premises to which he had been refused admission , and in which be believed diseased cattle to be kept . The magistrate informed him that under the act he hael power to enforce administration by virtue of his

appointment and . without a Avarrant . Recalcitrant dealers will , therefore , in future have their gates subjected to the action of sledge hammers . A deputation from the sanitarium committee of theCorporation of London on AVednesday awaited on the ltoyal Commissioners appointee ! to inquire into the cattle plague , and stated their views on the question of the establishment of hospitals for tho diseased animals . Some of the members of the

deputation were examined , but of course no conclusion was announced by the commissioners , who are sitting every day , and devoting their attention to the rather unattractive subject with a perseverance worthy of all praise . At the Hampstead Police-court , on AVednesday , a new anel rather ingenious device for raising money was revealed . A youth was in the habit of calling on householders , and stating thafc he had overheard

some men planning a burglary at that house , and he had taken tlie trouble to come and warn them . Of course he asked for his railway fare , and appears to have got it . He was committed for trial on four distinct charges , and will probably have leisure at Holloway to meditate on some other clever trick .

FouElGJr IXTEELIGENCE . —The reported commencement of the evacuation of a portion of Papal territory by the French troops is contradicted . Ifc is now announced that the movement will nofc commence for a few weeks . In connection with this matter much interest is attached to Count AValewski's trip to Florence . The count previous to his departure having

visited Biarritz , it is assumed that he bas been entrusted by the Emperor with some secret and special communications to tho Italian Court relative to the convention of September . In the South of France the cholera has almost disappeared , and it is to bo hoped that the recent storms may have purified the atmosphere , and that any further spread of epidemic may so

he prevented . According to the Wanderer of Vienna , the new Austrian loan is concluded . Messrs . Rothschild ' s several Irouses , and Messrs . Baring Brothers , of London , are , according to this authority , the contractors for thc loan , which will be issued in two emissions of sixty millions of florins etch . It is believed in Vienna that several of the minor German Governments are aboufc to recognise the kingdom of Italy immediately , and that tiro negotiations between Prussia and