The Week.

niker , whose father is patron , appears , as a general rule , to set the rubric at defiance , and has lately crowned his other eccentricities by refusing to bury the dead of his parish . The consequence is that the church is converted by the wilder portion of the parishioners into a bear garden , and the day of vest into one of riot . Matters have gone so far that the ecclesiastical

authorities in the diocese have been forced to investigate thej matter . -The Rev . P . Jones , incumbent of Hindley , Lancashire , has resigned his living , as he can no longer conscientiously give his full " assent and consent" to all that is contained in the " Book of Common Prayer . " We infer , from a statement made to his parishioners by the rev . gentlemen on Sunday , that the

Athanasian Creed , and the Baptismal , Afsitation , and Ordination services are the stumbling-blocks which compel him to take this step Mr . Jones will , however , continue a member of the Church , and will do all he can for the revision of the " Prayer Book . " The maglstates and landowners of the county of Galway have prepared an address to Lord Carlisle , in which they

deplore and condemn the stupid insult recently offered to His Excellency by Lord Leitrim . The Globe says "the real reason why the hotel at Maam was ordered to be closed again Lord Carlisle was , that Lord Leitrim had been more than once passed over for the lieutenancy of the county in which the great bulk of his property lies .

A dreadful calamity has occurred at one of Mr . Hussey A ivian ' s coalpits at Port Talbot , near Swansea . On Saturday afternoon , an explosion took place , bringing down the roof in many parts of the mine . Some 400 men were at work at the time , and of these 36 are ascertained to have been killed . Many more were injured , and it may even he feared that tho list of killed will be found to exceed the large number we have stated . It appears that the rotten gunboats which are now in course of

demolition are to be replaced by a squadron of armour-plated vessels . The new guu-boats , we are told , will be constructed on " an entirely new system , " from plans prepared by Mr . Reed . They will be propelled by twin screws , and each boat will be capable of carrying two heavy guns . The Valiant , a 34-gun iron-clad , provided with a sort of beak to enable her to act as a " ram" —was launched at Poplar . It is not expected

that any of the other iron frigates will be ready to leave the building yards before the close of the year .- A few days ago the Duke of Buckingham was subjected to a gross outrage by some railway passengers at the Bath station of the Great AVestern , as he was getting some luggage out of the carriage . The offenders were brought before the Bath magistrates on

Saturday , when they expressed their great regret for their unmannerly conduct , which they attributed to their eagerness to get into the carriage , as the train did not stay more than a minute or two at the station . Tho duke aceepted their apology , on their undertaking to pay all expenses and give £ 5 to the Bath United Hospital . Peterborough Cathedral

was entered by thieves on Saturday night , and a strong oaken almsbox , supposed to have contained about £ 20 , was broken open , and rifled of its contents . The protracted inquiry into the murder of the man Cheenery , at Wolverhampton , has been brought to a close , but without unravelling the mystery which has hung over this terrible affair ever since the discovery

of the deceased's body . The Coroner ' s jury could only enter a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown . " An inquest has been held on the bod y of a married woman named Blythe , who , it is suspected , has been poisoned . She had lived in High-street , Great Gardiner-street . A post-mortem examination had been made , aad the medical man said there were symptoms of poisoning . The contents of the stomach were , however , being analysed , aud therefore

nothing definite was known as yet . There seems to have been numerous rumours as to deceased ' s death . These are to be brought out at the adjourned inquest . A man named Conolly , living near Clonmel , having been missing for some time , the mystery was enhanced by a young woman , one of Conolly ' s neighbours , stating that on a certain night she

saw her father in an adjoining room chopping up a dead body , which she watched him afterwards carry out and bury in a hog . The bog has been searched , and sure enough the head and part of the murdered man ' s body has been found . The young woman must , therefore , have known something about the matter , though it seems unnatural that she should accuse her own father .

The other day , Mr . Briggs , a coalovmev , residing in the neighbourhood of Wakefield , who has had some trouble with his miners , received a missive warning him of a terrible fate . The men employed at one of the pits of the Kirkless Hall Company " struck" lust week against a proposed reduction of their wages , and on Friday a notice was found posted at Ince ,

intimating that " the pistol was loaded " for the principal partner in the Company , Mr . John Lancaster , and his brother , Mr . S . Lancaster . If innocent of these atrocious threats , the colliers employed by Mr . Briggs and the Kirkless Hall Company have ample opportunity of removing a stigma ivhich for the present they must be content to bear . An accident has happened to the

Africa , one of the Canard steamers . On the night of the 12 th she went ashore in a dense fog near Cape Race . In half an hour she was got off , and , though making much water , bore up for St , John's , Newfoundland , where she arrived next day . Her cargo would have to be discharged . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —A conference of the ministers of most of those German Sovereigns who assented to the Emperor of Austria's proposals for a reform of the Federal Constitution

has been opened at Nuremberg ; and Count Rechberg will preside over its deliberations . The Ionian Parliament has passed , by an overwhelming majority , resolutions demanding the immediate cessation of the English protectorate , and the incorporation of the Septinsular republic with the Greek kingdom . The Independence Beige has published an extraordinary and

improbable story to the effect that the Poles have applied for assistance to the Ottoman Porte ; that they have offered to conclude an offensive and defensive alliance . with Turkey , and to aid in re-conquering all the provinces which have been wrested from the Sultans by Russia ; that the Turkish Government is not disinclined to listen favourably to the offer ; and that the

Russian Cabinet apprehends a conjoint attack from Sweden , Turkey , and France . At the same time it is affirmed , that the Russian Ambassador at Constantinople has declared to the Turkish ministers that a recognition of the Poles as belligerents will be regarded by Russia as a declaration of war . A telegram received through the Russian consulate announces

that the Hotel de Ville at Warsaw was fired in three places on Sunday , and ascribes the act to the work of incendiaries . To meet these and other violent acts on the part of the insurgents , the Russian Government is resorting to very extreme measures . Amongst the most recent is an order for all civilians to give up their arms , and the dismissal of all functionaries of

Polish nationality . It is even asserted that the Russian language is in future to be used in administrative proceedings in Poland—a statement , however , that we think is open to great doubt . A Copenhagen journal states that the King of Denmark unexpectedly returned from Schleswig to his capital on Thursday evening , in consequence of the receipt of " important

notes" from the French and English Cabinets ; but another Copenhagen newspaper denies that any offer of mediation between Germany and Denmark has been received from either