The Week.

Duke de Grammont , continue to be held . It is said that the attributions of the Council of State aud the Financial Consulta are to be extended . The Wiener Zcitimg of this day contains an Imperial decree raising the state of siege in A ' enice . However , some slight regulations will continue provisionally in force for certain eases . -A supp lement to the Im-alide Itusse has just been published , which states that , according to a verbal report of Lieut .-Col . Grabbe , a victorious assault hacl been made on Gunib , and five camions had been taken by the

Russians . Schamyl was taken prisoner , aud his sons and family were captured or killed . The Russian loss did not exceed one hundred men . The Madrid journals of the 15 th have arrived . The Gaceta contains an account of a combat which had taken place between the Spaniards and the Jloors at Ceuta , in which the Jloors lost thirty-two killed ancl forty wounded , ivhile the Spaniards lost only twelve wounded . From Constantinople , under date of September IS , we learn that a conspiracy to assassinate the Sultan had been discovered , and two hundred persons

had been arrested . The troops were suspected of participation in it . News has been received from the frontiers of Jlorocco . The native tribes had renewed their attacks ou the French outposts , and had pillaged and set fire to some of the French houses . Gen . Esterhazy made a brilliant onslaught , and repulsed the enemy . The Government of Jlorocco does not appear to be implicated in these attacks , but has not the power to check them . The steamer Cilji of Washington , from New York on the 10 th , arrived at Queenstowu on Tuesday night , whore she landed forty-four passengers , ancl proceeded for Liverpool . Her political news is unimportant .

INOIA AND CHINA . —AA'e have received by the Overland Mail advices and papers from Bombay to the 20 th of August . Upwards of 10 , 000 soldiers have desired their discharge . There is little news of the rebels , who were prowling about iu small bands , and nearly in a state of starvation . The Nana was suffering from fever , and the Begum still holds out . Balla Rao , tbe Nana ' s brother , hacl died of jungle fever . The Cuiidiu , with Calcutta dates to 27 th August , has arrived at Aden . A hill had been introduced in the Legislative Council to tax all

professions and trades in India ; cultivators of land to be exempted . The Special Disarming Act passed during the mutiny is to become permanent . The House of Delhi has been deprived of all titular distinctions and privileges for ever . The French Admiral commanding iu Cochin China lias concluded a treaty with the Annamese , and will probably start with his fleet to China . The barque Neptune bad been lost off Akyab . Thc state of the funds was : five-and-a-half per cent . Loan , 5 . ] to 5 A discount . Exchange on London , six months , for first-class paper , 2 s . " 0 £ d .

The following is an extract from a private letter received from an officer on boarcl ono of the gunboats engaged in the recent operations at the mouth of the Peiho River : — " Our little craft was riddled by their shot . Ten carpenters have been at work upon us three days , plugging up our shot-holes . The heaviest shot we received wei ghed 56 lbs . " Several balls were cut out of our second gig , which several officers , among whom was Commander Coinmerell , declare are Russian rifle balls . AVe shall have hotter work next time , as their forts are progressing in size and number fast . I was working at the howitzer , aud a ball carried away my watch and chain . "

GEXEEAL HOME NEWS . —Lord Derby is laid up with another fit of the gout , which will , we fear , prevent him from being present at the great banquet which the Liverpool Conservatives are getting up . As for the Premier , he is at Broadlauds , well ancl hearty , and has been improving the minds of the bumpkins by speeches on railway progress and social improvements , apropos of cutting sods and rolling wheelbarrows , which his lordship has been doing with his usual facetious urbanity on some iiew railway near his park . Active measures we believe have been taken

here to repair the Chinese disaster ; and it is to be hoped that in India Lord Canning will not be found wanting in promptitude , and that he will contrive to despatch a numerous ancl efficient reinforcement to the scene of action iu China . Lord Clyde is coming home , and bis place is to be filled by Sir Hugh Rose ; General Mansfield is appointed to the command of th-J Bombay army . Brave old Admiral Hope , who commanded , and was dangerously wounded at the Peiho Forts , is recalled , ' . "id will be superseded by Admiral Keppellan equalldashing officer

, y , Ji'ho we hope will have better luck than his gallant predecessor . The "' quest on the bodies of the sufferers by the explosion on board the O -reat Eastern , is at length brought to a close , a verdict equivalent to "ue of accidental death having been returned . A want of caution is ' . ' Iso declared to have been exhibited on the part of the engineers ; but who "the engineers" were is a question yet to be decided , and one upon which the jury did not find themselves called to inion

pronounce an op .- — ¦ file revising barrister for the City of London registration has this iveek 'old his first sitting at Guildhall . The objections on the liberal side are > 'Oout five hundred in number , and those on the conservative three hun-T [ 1 ? . , *¦ % ¦ There are but . few fresh claims . The second court for ^ Klcllesex was held at Bcdfont by Jlr . Shadwell . Of the two days' prueeding . s j 10 re 3 Ui ( . SU 0 Vr . | ft ( . Uxbridge—conservative objections , forty * S « t ; expungedtwonty . four—liberalsthirty-seveii ;

expungedtwenty-, , , li . ° ' ^* ^ e ^ lont conservative objections . nineteen ; expunged , twelve . ~ TO « i , fiffcy . fiva ; expunged , fiftvtivo . Tho result of the day ' s pro . codings at Jlr . Shadwell ' s court , showed conservative objections made . iiiety-one : sustained , fifty-three ; liberals , one hundred and nine made , il m ? > ' - * mn' sustained . , The revising barrister for the City oi Louaw" ? "cluikd tile li 3 t 3 of liverymen of the different companies . m 10 . ins been no intimation g iven as to % intention of the covm-ment

with regard to the fate of Dr , Smethurst . He still continues to assert his innocence , and he is engaged the greater part of every clay iu writing what he calls " notes " of the case , and which consist of remarks upon the evidence for the prosecution . The visiting justices , in order to assist him in this matter , have allowed him to have a transcript of the notes of the short hand writer employed at the Central Criminal Court , or rather the printed report which is published at the close of each session

by order of the . corporation of the City of Loudon , which of course amounts to thc same thing . This is considered a very extraordinary proceeding , and it is most unusual to allow such facilities to a capital convict . ——The registrar general ' s l-eUww for the past week gives the number of deaths as 1002 , which is about the average mortality for the middle of September . There was an increase of deaths from small pox and scarlatina , but a considerable decrease in fatal cases from diarrhoea . The births during the week amounted to 1607 . It will be observed

with regret that JDr . Vaughan , whoso able oversight of Harrow school has done much to keep up the reputation of that ancient seat of learning , is about to retire . A meeting was held ou Monday evening at the London Tavern , Chatham , by the dockyard men , at which it was agreed to enter into a subscription for presenting to the Right Hon . James AVilson a testimonial , to consist of a silver inkstand , for his exertion in obtaining the Civil Service Superannuation Bill . The subscription amounted to £ 9 10 . i . Id ., which would remain open until Saturday .

Thc September session of the Central Criminal Court opened oil Jtonday , before thc Lord Mayor , the Recorder , and several aldermen . The first edition of the calendar contained the names of eighty-three prisoners . The Recorder , in his charge to the grand jury , congratulated them upon the lightness of the calendar . Among the cases tried was that-of AVilliam Denbigh Slopor JIarshall , who was charged with bigamy ; he was found guilty , and sentenced to four years' penal servitude . The case has been often before the police courts . Alfred Cooper

surrendered to take his trial upon several indictments charging him with embezzling money from the churchwardens and overseers of Cambonvell parish . He pleaded not guilty . Two cases were tried , and the prisoner was acquitted on both . Jlr . Poland said it was the intention of the prosecution to proceed with the other indictments . Those trials

occupied a very long time . At the Middlesex Sessions , Charlotte Jlorris , a married woman , was indicted for attempting to commit suicide . She bud been taken into custody for drunkenness , and while locked up she twice attempted to strangle herself . She pleaded guilt } -, and was sentenced to six months' hard labour , on which she said she would do it yet . Thomas Suter , a baker , but ivell known as the " Thieves ' Lawyer , " and Thomas JLec , a returned convict , known as the " Rabbit , " from his dexterity at thieving , pleaded guilty to robbing Charlotte

Yeates . A long list of convictions against Suter was put iu , extending over fourteen years , and he . had served one sentence of four years' penal servitude . Suter was now sentenced to six , and Lee to three years ' penal servitude . Thomas Thompson was convicted of stealing fixtures from a dwelling-house . He was one of a gang who got possession of houses by false references , and immediately stripped them of eveiythiug that could be taken away . He was also shown to have been guilty of other offences , and the Court sentenced , him to eighteen

months' hard labour . John AA'hite ivas convicted of assaulting ancl robbing AVilliam Payne . He had been repeatedly convicted and sentenced to various tonus of imprisonment , and on one occasion was condemned to four years' penal servitude . The learned Judge said this was another instance of old and known thieves getting off by pleading guilty at police offices , and being summarily convicted . He was nowsentenced to ten years' penal servitude . At the Court of Bankruptcy the cases of Jlessrs . Oak and Snow , of the Blaudford Bank , ancl the European and American Steam Shipping Company , were brought under consideration . The petition against Messrs . Oak and Snow will be .

annulled , the majority of the creditors having agreed to the receipt of a settled dividend . The audit of the European ancl American Steam Company was effected , but no dividend is to be declared under the liquidation until the bills forming a portion of the assets arrive at maturity . The choice of assignees was arranged in the case of John Edward Buller , the fraudulent bankrupt solicitor and money scrivener , of Lincoln ' s-inn-fields , whose debts and liabilities amount to upwards of £ 100 , 000 . The bankrupt has absconded , having , it is said , inflicted

severe injury , if not niter ruin , upon many persons by whom he was trusted in his confidential character of solicitor . One very gross case was detailed yesterday , in which the bankrupt appropriated to his own purposes £ 10 , 000 of trust money and property of a widow lady . The total amount of debts proved yesterday was about £ 13 , 000 or £ 1-1 , 000 , At the Central Criminal Court yesterday , the trials of Charles Annois , a Portugese , charged with the murder of Philip Barker , ancl of George Frederick Royal , accused of poisoning a young woman with whom

ho cohabited at Poplar , were postponed until next session . Thomas Goudfelloiv , a boy ten years of age , was found guilty of stealing a letter containing a bill of exchange , and sentenced to fourteen days' hard labour , and five years' confinement in a reformatory ; and Henry Foul was indicated for stabbing Sarah Thompson with intent to murder her ; a second count charged the intent to be to do grievous bodily barm , and on this last count be was found guilty ancl sentenced to penal servitude for four years . Just before the closing of the court the judge increased tho sentence passed on young Gooclr ' ellow from fourteen days to six weeks' imprisonment in Newgate , and afterwards to be sent to a re . torm . it . ory for five years , —^ Jlary Denny and JJIary Ilealev were found