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The Week.
ten threatening letters to the Master of the Rolls . Musgravc seems to ' nave been under the impression that the judge had made an unfair attack upon him in the course of a judgment which ho delivered . The impression was ill-founded , but the prisoner wrote letters making threats . He was ordered to find sureties for his future good behaviour . —•—At the Middlesex Sessions Frederick George , the man who was charged with
defrauding various members of the detective police by obtaining money in exchange for false information , was tried , found guilty , and sentenced to five years' penal servitude . The case with which he duped the police officers did not reflect much credit on their acuteness . William Adolphus Roberts , the landlord of the Prince of Wales Tavern , Church-lane , Windsor , was
brought up for final examination on the charge of assaulting his servant , Adelaide Dun ton , who leaped out of the window to avoid his blows . The girl was well enough to be present and to give her evidence . Her mother also was examined , and it appeared that there was a friendship between the families , and that Roberts had some occasion to complain of her conduct ,
when his rage became ungovernable , and he beat her in a brutal manner till she leaped out of the window to escape from him . He was committed for trial . A horrible charge has been brought before the Woolwich authorities . An inquest was in the first instance held on the body of an infant , only a few months old , found in the river with its throat cut . The child
Avas clearly identified as the son of a man named Jones , living in Plumstead . Jones was then taken before the magistrate , and a further charge was made against him of having poisoned his Avife , who died in childbirth , but with strong symptoms of having been poisoned . The ease was remanded , and the body of the wife was ordered to be exhumed . The coroner's inquiry into the disaster on the South Eastern Railway at Staplehurst has
resulted in a vt relict of manslaughter against the district inspector of the line , and Bengo , the foreman platelayer . A fire of some magnitude recently happened on the premises of Mr . Bangravo , a looking glass frame maker , in Fashion-street , Spitalfields . It is not known how it was caused , but the premises were all but destroyed before it could be extinguished . Two of the firemen had a narrow escape ; one of the rungs of
the ladder on which they were standing broke , and they were thrown to the ground from a considerable height , but received no injury beyond a good shaking . A serious accident took place at Wigan on Tuesday . A collision , in which three trains had some part , occurred in the immediate neighbourhood of the station . Many persons were bruised , and much property
destroyed ; but happily no fatal casualties are announced . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The estrangement between the Emperor Napoleon and his cousin seems likely to be removed , if it is not already so , as wo learn that his Majesty received Prince Napoleon on Monday afternoon . It is stated that Prince Lucicn Bonaparte is to be appointed president of the
Paris Universal Exhibition commission in the room of Prince Napoleon . Prince Lucien Bonaparte is well known in England , whore ho resides during much of his time . He is distinguished as a philologist . The j \[ onitev , r affords a singular instance of the way in which financial matters are managed in France . That journal has published the Bill settling the Budget of
1 SG 2 , thus making the public acquainted in June , 1 SG 5 , with the balance-sheet of three years previous . At the close of last week the drivers of hackney coaches in Paris struck work for a rise of wages ; the consequence was that nob one of those vehicles could be had , to the great annoyance and inconvenience of the public . The inconvenience of the withdrawal of sonic-5 , 000 vehicles from public use was becoming so i 11 to ] or able ,. tl iutthe authorities had felt it necessary to interfere , and a meeting
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between the delegates of the cabmen and tiie representatives of the Government was arranged , at which a provisional compromise was likely to be come to . The difficulty appears principally to have arisen from one company having a monopoly of all the public cabs . Public opinion eagerly contends that the Prefect of Police ought at once to terminate the contract which has the monopoly of the cab supply . A clause in the charter
enables the authorities to do this if from any cause the company should at any time fail to continue the service . The Austrian authorities have taken alarm in consequence of the reports about the arrivals of persons attacked by cholera from Alexandria and the East . They have , therefore , ordered a temporary quarantine of seven days for all vessels arriving
from Egyptian provinces in Austrian ports . The Czar has been repeating to the Poles the warning of "No dreams" of independence . In replying , the other day , to an address of condolence on his recent bereavement , presented to him by a Polish * deputation , his Majesty took the opportunity of declaring it to he his firm resolve never to " tolerate the idea of
separating the kingdom of Poland from Russia . My successor , " he added , "if worthy to succeed to the throne , will rule according to the same principles , and will not tolerate what I have not tolerated . "——The Prussian Parliament was prorogued on Saturday . The resistance of the Lower House to the unconstitutional proceedings of the Government was again
the leading theme of the Speech from the Throne . The Deputies were told that , instead of an understanding having been arrived at , " the session closes with the impression of mutual estrangement . " The Government will , however , " continue to conduct public affairs according to the wants of the country ; " and Herr Von Bismarck and his royal master hope " that the day is not far distant when the nation , through its representativeswill to the King its approval and
, express thanks for the course which has been pursued . " The President of the Lower House subsequently delivered a speech , in which he said that "the efforts to transform a constitutional into an absolute police and military state have reached the utmost limit , " but that they would " wreck upon the loyalty of the people to the Constitution manifested by thrice electing its representatives . "——The Prussian Chambers have unanimously
ratified the treaties of commerce between Prussia and England and Belgium . The Nazione of Florence , referring to some statements which have recently appeared in a Paris journal relative to the result of Signor Vcgozzi ' s mission to Rome , asserts that difficulties have arisen mainly on the point of the Italian bishops being required to take the oath of allegiance to King Victor Emmanuel . The Pope , it is said , has so far
yielded as to admit the necessity of reducing the number of sees , but he refuses , it is affirmed , to order the prelates who take their cue from the Vatican to swear fealty to the King of Italv . The Nazione thinks it not impossible that the
negociations may prove fruitless . AJIEMCA . —The Belgian has arrived , with news from New York to the evening of June 10 . The Federals have occupied Brownsville , Texas , and indeed most of the State was at their mercy . The artillery at Brownsville had been sold by the Confederates to the Mexican Imperialists . Kirby Smith is said to have gone to Mexico with a large sum of money . Mr . Gerritt Smith , Mr . Horace Greeley , and others , are arguing strongly against the hanging of Jefferson Davis . It does not appear to bo settled as yet where he will be tried . It is stated that there is great want of food in Georgia .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
J . B . S . — What are you driving at ? Q in the Corner is altogether mistaken . It must have been " some other man ;" we reside some miles away from the place appointed for the display . NON Q ( 7 A 3 E DOBJIIO . —Never go to sleep . PATlivIs misinformed . We do not know either of the ladies , mentioned—will Patty give us an engagement ? B ' . ' B . — -fiek do not know to what you allude .
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The Week.
ten threatening letters to the Master of the Rolls . Musgravc seems to ' nave been under the impression that the judge had made an unfair attack upon him in the course of a judgment which ho delivered . The impression was ill-founded , but the prisoner wrote letters making threats . He was ordered to find sureties for his future good behaviour . —•—At the Middlesex Sessions Frederick George , the man who was charged with
defrauding various members of the detective police by obtaining money in exchange for false information , was tried , found guilty , and sentenced to five years' penal servitude . The case with which he duped the police officers did not reflect much credit on their acuteness . William Adolphus Roberts , the landlord of the Prince of Wales Tavern , Church-lane , Windsor , was
brought up for final examination on the charge of assaulting his servant , Adelaide Dun ton , who leaped out of the window to avoid his blows . The girl was well enough to be present and to give her evidence . Her mother also was examined , and it appeared that there was a friendship between the families , and that Roberts had some occasion to complain of her conduct ,
when his rage became ungovernable , and he beat her in a brutal manner till she leaped out of the window to escape from him . He was committed for trial . A horrible charge has been brought before the Woolwich authorities . An inquest was in the first instance held on the body of an infant , only a few months old , found in the river with its throat cut . The child
Avas clearly identified as the son of a man named Jones , living in Plumstead . Jones was then taken before the magistrate , and a further charge was made against him of having poisoned his Avife , who died in childbirth , but with strong symptoms of having been poisoned . The ease was remanded , and the body of the wife was ordered to be exhumed . The coroner's inquiry into the disaster on the South Eastern Railway at Staplehurst has
resulted in a vt relict of manslaughter against the district inspector of the line , and Bengo , the foreman platelayer . A fire of some magnitude recently happened on the premises of Mr . Bangravo , a looking glass frame maker , in Fashion-street , Spitalfields . It is not known how it was caused , but the premises were all but destroyed before it could be extinguished . Two of the firemen had a narrow escape ; one of the rungs of
the ladder on which they were standing broke , and they were thrown to the ground from a considerable height , but received no injury beyond a good shaking . A serious accident took place at Wigan on Tuesday . A collision , in which three trains had some part , occurred in the immediate neighbourhood of the station . Many persons were bruised , and much property
destroyed ; but happily no fatal casualties are announced . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The estrangement between the Emperor Napoleon and his cousin seems likely to be removed , if it is not already so , as wo learn that his Majesty received Prince Napoleon on Monday afternoon . It is stated that Prince Lucicn Bonaparte is to be appointed president of the
Paris Universal Exhibition commission in the room of Prince Napoleon . Prince Lucien Bonaparte is well known in England , whore ho resides during much of his time . He is distinguished as a philologist . The j \[ onitev , r affords a singular instance of the way in which financial matters are managed in France . That journal has published the Bill settling the Budget of
1 SG 2 , thus making the public acquainted in June , 1 SG 5 , with the balance-sheet of three years previous . At the close of last week the drivers of hackney coaches in Paris struck work for a rise of wages ; the consequence was that nob one of those vehicles could be had , to the great annoyance and inconvenience of the public . The inconvenience of the withdrawal of sonic-5 , 000 vehicles from public use was becoming so i 11 to ] or able ,. tl iutthe authorities had felt it necessary to interfere , and a meeting
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between the delegates of the cabmen and tiie representatives of the Government was arranged , at which a provisional compromise was likely to be come to . The difficulty appears principally to have arisen from one company having a monopoly of all the public cabs . Public opinion eagerly contends that the Prefect of Police ought at once to terminate the contract which has the monopoly of the cab supply . A clause in the charter
enables the authorities to do this if from any cause the company should at any time fail to continue the service . The Austrian authorities have taken alarm in consequence of the reports about the arrivals of persons attacked by cholera from Alexandria and the East . They have , therefore , ordered a temporary quarantine of seven days for all vessels arriving
from Egyptian provinces in Austrian ports . The Czar has been repeating to the Poles the warning of "No dreams" of independence . In replying , the other day , to an address of condolence on his recent bereavement , presented to him by a Polish * deputation , his Majesty took the opportunity of declaring it to he his firm resolve never to " tolerate the idea of
separating the kingdom of Poland from Russia . My successor , " he added , "if worthy to succeed to the throne , will rule according to the same principles , and will not tolerate what I have not tolerated . "——The Prussian Parliament was prorogued on Saturday . The resistance of the Lower House to the unconstitutional proceedings of the Government was again
the leading theme of the Speech from the Throne . The Deputies were told that , instead of an understanding having been arrived at , " the session closes with the impression of mutual estrangement . " The Government will , however , " continue to conduct public affairs according to the wants of the country ; " and Herr Von Bismarck and his royal master hope " that the day is not far distant when the nation , through its representativeswill to the King its approval and
, express thanks for the course which has been pursued . " The President of the Lower House subsequently delivered a speech , in which he said that "the efforts to transform a constitutional into an absolute police and military state have reached the utmost limit , " but that they would " wreck upon the loyalty of the people to the Constitution manifested by thrice electing its representatives . "——The Prussian Chambers have unanimously
ratified the treaties of commerce between Prussia and England and Belgium . The Nazione of Florence , referring to some statements which have recently appeared in a Paris journal relative to the result of Signor Vcgozzi ' s mission to Rome , asserts that difficulties have arisen mainly on the point of the Italian bishops being required to take the oath of allegiance to King Victor Emmanuel . The Pope , it is said , has so far
yielded as to admit the necessity of reducing the number of sees , but he refuses , it is affirmed , to order the prelates who take their cue from the Vatican to swear fealty to the King of Italv . The Nazione thinks it not impossible that the
negociations may prove fruitless . AJIEMCA . —The Belgian has arrived , with news from New York to the evening of June 10 . The Federals have occupied Brownsville , Texas , and indeed most of the State was at their mercy . The artillery at Brownsville had been sold by the Confederates to the Mexican Imperialists . Kirby Smith is said to have gone to Mexico with a large sum of money . Mr . Gerritt Smith , Mr . Horace Greeley , and others , are arguing strongly against the hanging of Jefferson Davis . It does not appear to bo settled as yet where he will be tried . It is stated that there is great want of food in Georgia .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
J . B . S . — What are you driving at ? Q in the Corner is altogether mistaken . It must have been " some other man ;" we reside some miles away from the place appointed for the display . NON Q ( 7 A 3 E DOBJIIO . —Never go to sleep . PATlivIs misinformed . We do not know either of the ladies , mentioned—will Patty give us an engagement ? B ' . ' B . — -fiek do not know to what you allude .