Knights Templar.

speefced in every relation of life . AA ith 'Sir Knt . Clerk ' s name he coupled that of the rest of the Prov . Grand Officers . In drawing this notice to a close , we may remark that the evening was spent in thafc unity of feeling , social comfort , and absence of all restraint , so peculiar to the Woolwich fraternity .

The Week.

THE WEEK .

THE C OURT . —Her Majesty held a Court on the 16 th afc Buckingham Palace . Mirza Djafer Khan—Muchir-ud-Dowle—Persian Ambassador , had an audience to take leave . The Hon . George Mifflin Dallas had an audience and delivered his letters of recall as Minister from the United States . Mr . Charles Francis Adams delivered his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary ancl Minister from

the United States . The Queen held another Court on Friday . The Earl of Elgin had an audience of the Queen on Iris return from China . Sir John Crampton , her Majesty ' s Minister at Madrid , had an audience of leave of the Queen . On Saturday , her Majesty and family proceeded to Osborne . Tho King of- the Belgians , the Count of Flanders , and Prince Louis of Hesse , are on a visit to her Majesty .

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . —In the HOUSE OE LORDS on Thursday , May 16 th , the Earl of Ellenborough , referring fco the proclamation recently issued by the Government relative to the conduct of British subjects in reference to the war in America , complained of the technical language employed , such as " a lawful ancl actual blockade , " " contraband of war , " and other phrases , which , he saicl , would

render it difficult of apprehension , if not entirely unintelligible , to non-legal and unlearned persons . Earl Granville explained that if a blockade were maintained in proper form and manner , and with such a force as to make it effective , it would be a lawful ancl actual blockade . As to articles contraband of war , many were obviously of such a nature as to require no further definition , and as to others

they must be adjudicated upon in the prize courts . The Princess Alice ' s Annuity Bill was read a third time and passed—Mr . Justice Willes ancl Mr . Justice Keating being deputed to inform the House of Commons that their lordships had agreed to the bill without amendments . On Friday the royal assent was given by commission to the Princess Alice ' s Annuity Bill . In reply to Lord

Berners , Earl de Grey and Ripon said that , as soon as the rolls of names were complete , the troops entitled to share in the prize money for the capture of DelhianclLuoknowwouldbe paid / Adjourned . In the HOUSE OE COMMONS on Thursday , the 16 fch , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , iu reply to a question from Mr . Baxter , read an extract from a letter which had been addressed by the ,

Postmaster-General to the Secretary of the Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Company , to the effect that upon a review of the whole case the Postmaster-General felt thafc in the discharge of a public duty he had no alternative bufc to exercise the power reserved to him , and declare the contract for carrying the mails between Galway and America at an end . After considerable discussion , the Customs and

Inland Revenue BUI ( the budget ) was read a second time , and ordered to bo committed on Monday week . The Excise and Stamps Bill was read a second time . On Friday , in reply to a question from Lord John Manners , Mr . T . G . Baring said that the Secretary for War had received private information thafc one hundred men had been deputed to hold military guard over the locks on the St .

Lawrence Canal , in Canada . The right hon . gentleman also said that in consequence of a recommendation received from the Commander-in-Chief in the colony it was intended to despatch one battalion of the line there . Mr . Whiteside submitted a number of resolutions ou the subject of national education in Ireland . The House was counted out , and adjourned for the holidays .

GENERAL HOME NEWS . —During last week the deaths in the metropolis amounted to 1219—a decrease to some extent on those of the foregoing week , but still above the average for that period of the year . Perhaps this is to be accounted for by the sudden and extreme variations of temperature that have lately been experienced ; and now that warm weather appears to have fairly set in an

improvement in thepublic health may be expected to follow . Of births there were registered 1935—1013 boys and 922 girls . The barometer showed a mean height of 30 ' 049 inches , and the thermometer a temperature of 5 P 9 degrees in the week . Cambridge threw off its quiet and studious habit for a time , on Saturday last , assuming somewhat the air of a garrison town , resonant with martial notes

and gay with martial uniforms . The occasion of this unwonted stir was a visit paid by the Inns of Court , or Devil ' s Own , Volunteers , 450 in number , to the student volunteers of the university . Colonel M'Murdo reviewed the two companies on Parker ' s Piece—the Prince of AA'ales being on the ground—ancl after the despatch of military duties the visitors were entertained at the various colleges , and

returned to town in the evening . The AVhitsuntide holidays commenced on Monday , and more propitious weather the holiday people could not have had . In addition to the theatrical and other indoor entertainments , there were several important A olun . teer displays , including reviews at Regent ' s Park , Hampstead , Blackheath , ancl AVindsor , ancl the presentation of colours to the

28 th Middlesex Volunteers , at the Crystal Palace . ^ Wednesdaywas the first clay of Trinity Term , and the law courts resumed business . The only cases of any public interest which require mentioning are—the appeal on the Hungarian Note dispute between the Emperor of Austria and Louis Kossuth , and the case of the Rev . Mr . Hatch . In the former the decree of Vice-Chancellor

Stuart has been appealed against , and the arguments were opened before the Lord Chancellor . They may occupy some days . AVith respect to the latter , the rev . gentleman is advised to apply for a new trial on the ground that the verdict , although in his favour , did not award substantial damages . The . defendants , the Messrs . Lewis , are understood not to object , as it was their own intention to apply for a new trial , on the ground that the verdict was against evidence . The unhappy case of Mrs . Gurneywho some time since

, eloped with her footman , has again come before the public . A decree nisi had been previously granted , and now a decree absolute has been granted , and the marriage is dissolved . The Rev . James Roe , a clergyman of the Church of England , has been brought before Mr . Corrie , at Bow-street , on a warrant which charged him with attempting hy forged documents to defraud certain persons out of the sum of £ 6000 . A very elaborate plot had been laid and

carried out by the prisoner—supposing the circumstances as detailed in the criminal information to be correct—comprising the forgery of the name of his deceased uncle , ancl the procuring to be engraved various stamps in imitation of those used by the Post-office authorities for impressing upon letters the names of the places where posted . Sufficient evidence for the purpose having been adduced the prisoner was remanded for a week , bail being peremptorily

refused . ' -A young woman , named Elizabeth Godfrey , with several aliases , was charged before Mr . Selfe , at the Thames Police-court , with stealing two children . It appeared that the prisoner had been staying in Edinburgh , where she represented herself to be a soldier ' s wife , and in this way succeeded in procuring a free passage by steamer for the purpose , as she said , of going to Aldershot . The children—girls of four and two years respectively—were the

daughters of people the prisoner had been staying with ; but what her real object was in bringing them off cannot be ascertained . According to her story , it was to give them change of air . Further inquiries are to be made , ancl the woman is remanded . A somewhat curious trial has occurred in the Sheriffs Court

Gentlemen who are in the habit of dining out at hotels , & c , on the occasion of public festivities are usually quite easy in their mind when they have left their hat and over-coat in the charge of tlie waiter , ancl have duly received a ticket as an acknowledgment of the deposit . It seems , however , that tho hall-keeper or waiter is not answerable , unless tbe depositor fees the waiter when he takes charge of the articles . The town of Great Yarmouth seems to have been left for two successive nihts in the hands of a

g couple of sets of military ruffians , to the great alarm and danger of the peaceable inhabitants . A large number of the East Norfolk Militia , out for training , are quartered in the town , where also is a detachment of the Royal Artillery . A quarrel in a public house led on Monclay to a general conflict between the men of the two corps , the