The Week.

laid their plans before them , and solicited assistance . The committee , after some deliberation , resolved to set apart £ 5000 of their funds to assist the unemployed to emigrate , and placed £ 1000 of this sum at the disposal of the society represented by Mr . Guilders . A curious disclosure was made at an interview which took place between Lord Russell and a deputation of

merchants and shippers interested jn tho Mexican trade . The -object of the deputation was to urge upon the noble earl the propriety of taking some step to protect British shipping from tho high-handed interference of the commanders of Federal cruisers , who have not hesitated to seize English vessels bound to the Mexican—and , of course , neutral— -port of Matamoras .

The plea urged by the Neutral Government is , that these ships , although professedly bound for Matamoras , are really carrying supplies to the Confederates ; but a document was placed in the Jiands of Lord Russell which showed that Mr . Adams , the American Minister in London , had given a special pass , " which would enable a certain vessel to make the voyage to Matamoras

without fear of being interrupted by Federal men-of-war . In this document Mr . Adams says he has had ample evidence to show that the cargo "is intended for the Mexicans , " and it is alleged that the protected ship is freighted with munitions ot war , to be employed against the French expeditionary force . It seems that a vessel , the May Queen , was lying at Falmouth ,

- . afraid to proceed to Matamoras in the present state of things . Her Majesty ' s mails are on board , and it was suggested to the Foreign Secretary that the Government might send a mail agent in the ship , who would represent an official guarantee that the was bound to the port for which she was was cleared . The noble earl promised to give the whole subject careful consideration , but subsequently declined to interfere , when the mails were

landed , and will be forwarded by some other vessel . The alleged Confederate gunboat Alexander has been exchequered at Liverpool , and it is stated that the Government contemplate legal proceedings against tbe builders . It is affirmed , on the hand , that the authorities are conscious of a serious flaw in the case . A discovery of great scientific interest is said to have

been made . It is alleged in a letter published in a Birmingham contemporary that " distinct evidence has been got to show that James Watt was engaged in photographic experiments , and that he took portraits . " The coroner's inquest on the young woman murdered in St . Giles ' s has been concluded . No tracehas been found of the murderer . It was stated at tin ? first

sitting that when the man and woman were admitted into the room the servant fastened the door by inserting a hasp in a staple on the outside . It has since been sworn that when the other servant went up to the room in the afternoon she found the hasp still fastening'the door , so that the man could not have got out that way , unless some one had let him out and replaced

tho hasp . The window of the room was open , but the policeman stated that the dust on the window sill had not been disturbed , so that the man could not have gone that way . The only other mode of exit was by a pair of folding doors into the front room where two girls were sleeping—their bed jammed up against the doors , and they swore , and the state of the folding doors

confirmed their statement , that nobody opened those folding doors or came over their bed that morning . How , then , had the murderer made his escape ? All the inmates of the house profess their ignorance—an ignorance extending to every detail . They heard no scuflle ; they did not know the man ; and what is more extraordinary none of them appeared to know the woman , though she appeared to have frequented the house . The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against some persons unknown . A carpenter named Richards gave himself up to the police on

Tuesday night as the murderer of tho woman . He was , how ever , drunk when he made the charge against himself , and when he became sober he soon altered his story . He was brought up at Bow-street police-court , and proved that he was at work on the day of the murder . The foolish fellow was discharged . The inquest on the body of Samuel Rivett , who was killed in a prize-fight some days ago at Hackney

Marshes , has been brought to a close . The jury found a verdict of manslaughter against Samuel Hewlett , with whom the deceased fought , another man named Lewis , and the seconds in the fight . A coroner's inquest was also held at a public-house in St . Giles's on the body of an infant which was found in a cistern filled with water , put there by its mother , a

servant in the house . The girl admitted that she was the mother of the child , and did not deny the act , as there was no doubt the poor victim had been born alive . The jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against the mother . Captain Cochrane , who appears to have been unwillingly drawn into the matter , has through his counsel , announced that he will no

longer intervene in the case now before the House of Lords as to the succession to the earldom of Dundonald . The question as to whether the present bearer of the title was born in wedlock will , therefore , be settled by the House of Lords , without any intervention on the part of the gallant Captain , who , it has been alleged , is the eldest of the lawful male issue of the late Earl and his Countess . The Bishop of Exeter has

applied to the Court of Chancery , for an injunction to restrain the Rev . Reginald Shutte from publishing many letters which his lordship has written . Mr . Shutte , contrary to the Bishop ' s wishes , is intent on publishing a work called "The Life , Times , and Writings of the Bishop of Sxefer , " and he has got possession of a number of his lordship ' s letters . Several

appeals from recent trials have been heard since the beginning of term . Among others , the proprietors of the Saturday Review applied for a new trial in the action where a jury found that they had libelled Dr . Campbell , of the British Ensign . The Court , however , after hearing Mr . Bovill's application , decided that the verdict of the jury was one that ought not to be

disturbed , and accordingly refused the rule . Mr . Berkeley , M . P ., was more fortunate in his appeal from tho verdict of the jury , which found that he was a director in the British Columbia Overl . ind Transit Company , anel saddled him with the expenses of those who trusted themselves to its guidance through the American wilds . Mr . Berkeley pleaded that he

only consented to become a director on certain conditions , which were never fulfilled , and the Court granted his application for a new trial on that point . The notorious Colonel Waugh was brought up on Saturday before the Bankruptcy Registrar . He had not surrendered to his bankruptcy , but venturing over to this country , lie was arrested by a creditor for debt , and lodged in Whitecross-street Prison . As he had not surrendered to his bankruptcy , the- Registrar declined to interfere , and the colonel

remains in prison . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —Two Paris journals , more or less "inspired , " concur in affirming that the Swedish government is making considerable armaments . Iron-clad ships have been ordered , and engineers aro actively engaged in fortifying the port of Carlscronn , tbe chief dockyard of the Swedish navy , whieh is to bo rendered capable of refitting , not only the

Swedish men of war , but also "the squadron of those powers whose interest it might be to station a naval force in those waters . " It is asserted that the Emperor Napoleon has addressed to the Queen of Spain an autograph letter , interceding on behalf of the Protestants sentenced to imprisonment . The Warsaw Revolutionary Committee have , we are told ,