The Week.

fighting taking place furiously iu the midst of the town . Notwithstanding steps taken nest morning by the magistrates to have the men confined to their quarters , the warfare was resumed as brutally as before on Tuesday evening . The conduct of the militia is reported as disgraceful . A serious collision also took place in AA rexham on Monday , between the militia and a body of the Liverpool volunteers . In this melee several persons , including womenwere

, dangerously hurt . The annual meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society was held on AA eclnesday . To give eclat to the meeting and show of the society , which are to take place next year in the metropolis , it was resolved to solicit the Prince Consort to act as President of the society during thafc year . The Prince , it was stated , hacl already consented to assume the office . The annual meeting of the Aborigines' Protection Society has been held

under the presidency of Mr . S . Guvney , M . P . The principal subject brought before the meeting was the New Zealand war , which the committee attributed to the unjust conduct of the Governor in setting aside the tribal authority over land , as well as in ignoring the claims of many individual owners . Upon this question Mr . G . Thompson delivered an eloquent speech , in the course of which he showed that the tribal right contended for by the natives of

New Zealand was identical with the system of land tenure existing in the villages of India . Mr . Fowler condemned strongl y the oppressions of the indigo planters ; and other speakers called attention to the wrongs of the aborigines in Australia , the South Seas , and other parts of the world . The annual meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was held on Monday . The Bishop of Bath ancl AVells , who occupied the chair , very strongly condemned the practice of vivisection . The hope was expressed that the Italian Parliament would soon pass a law for the protection of animals in the new kingdom .

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —A portion of the troops has at last been withdrawn from the public squares at AVarsaw . AVe learn from the Official Gazette of that city , that the measures relating to the reforms which the Russian Government mean to introduce into the administration of Poland have been drawn up , and that Platanoff and Karnicki have left for St . Petersbnrgh to obtain the Imperial sanction for them . A telegram from St . Petersurgh announces the death of Prince OrloffPresident of the Council of

, Ministers . The veteran soldier and statesman was raised to the office which he last held by the present Emperor . Orloff bore a distinguished part in the Russian campaign against Napoleon I ., and was wounded at the battle of Borodino . He rendered , during his long life , many great services to Alexander I ., and to Nicholas , the late Czar . In 1856 he was the first Russian plenipotentiary sent to the Congress of Paris . Orloff was seventy-four years of

age , having been born earl y in 1787 . Prospects in the North of Europe look still more favourable as regards the preservation of peace . ^ We learn from the Dagbladet of Copenhagen , that the majority of the soldiers who were lately called in will be allowed to go on furlough at the end of the present month , and that three-fourths of the army will then he placed on a peace footing . From this intelligence ive may safel that the Danish

Goy presume vernment feel tolerabl y assured as fco the pacific settlement , for the present at least , of the Schleswig-Holstein question . Prince Carignan is expected hourl y to return to Naples in company with the Chevalier Nigra . Previous to his Quitting Naples Turin

for , the Prince issued a ' proclamation , in which he recapitulated the reforms he had carried out during his government , and expressed his gratitude to the people and to the National Guard for the co-operation he hacl received . The new lieutenant of the King , M . Ponza di San Martino , has also issued a proclamation , in which he announces his intention to govern with energy and unity of action . He promises improvements in all the public services , to the of the

appeals support country , declaring that all loyal citizens are iu favour of the full union of the Italian people . General Klapka has left for Caprera , to pay a visit to Garibaldi , and will return , it is stated , to Turin to meet Kossuth , whose arrival is announced b y the journals of that city . Count Persigny , the French Minister of the Interior , has addressed a circular to ° the French prefects , enjoining on them the strictest care to prevent the of such

publication pamphlets as that recently issued by the Due d'Aumale . Count Persigny reminds the prefects that the judicial seizure of a pamphlet prevents any reply to it , and says : — "It is thus that one representing the policy of 1840 was able with ; impunity to address this strange question to the victor of Solferino— 'AVhat have you done with France ? '" The French Acailemy of Science have decided recommending that the

upon Emperor ' s prize be given toM . Thiers . The Commercio ( Spanish journal ) states that the town of Tangiers is being supplied with provisions , and its batteries are being armed . The new Governor of Tangiers has arrived there , and is stated to have great influence with the Court of Morocco . The English consul at Tangiers and

The Week.

the Government of Gibraltar are engaged in active correspondence . At the same time , there do not appear to have been any distinct ; indications that tranquillity was likely to be disturbed . The annexation of San Domingo is now formally , as well as actually accomplished . The Queen of Spain has signed the decree for its ratification . The Government have officially announced thafc slavery will not be re-established .

AMERICA . —By the arrival of the Asia at Queenstown we are in receipt of later news from the United States . AVashington , it appears , was still considered to be in danger , and the President of the New York Defence Committee , acting upon tbis information , had requested the Governor of the state to send more troops . The Governor of Virginia had issued a proclamation declaring that he ivould resist any invasion of that State . Secession ordinances had been passed in Arkansas and Tennessee and there can be no doubt

; that North Carolina would comply with the recommendations of her Government and do likewise . The Southern Congress had passed a law recognising the existence of war with the Federal Government , and an act had also been passed for granting letters of marque . It is very likely that public attention will soon be fixed on Fort Pickens as ifc was on Fort Sumter , for we read that General Bragg is making active preparations for an attack . The Intelligence also briugs

an important despatch , which Mr . Seward has addressed to Mr . Dayton , the new American Minister at Paris . Mr . Seward instructs Mr . Dayton to assure the French Government , in the very strongest language , that the Southern Confederacy is regarded as a combination of rebellious States , and that the Union will be retored to its integrity . "You cannot , " he writes , " be too decided or too explicit in making known to the French Government that there is not now , nor has there been , not will there be , any , the

least , idea existing in this Government of suffering a dissolution of this Union to take place in any way whatever . " This quite agrees with the tenor of all the other news from Washington that there will be war to fche knife . AVe are also in receipt of the text of Mi ' . Jefferson Davis ' s message to the Southern Congress , now sitting at Montgomery . Mr . Davis exhibits no indications of being awed by the enormous military preparations of the North . On the contrary , his tone is as determined as that of President Lincoln . In the

meanwhile , the Union sentiments of AVestern Alrginia , whicli appear to be thoroughly aroused , may prove a more formidable element of danger to the South than even the legions now gathering in Maryland ancl on the Southern borders . INDIA . —The Bombay mail again conveys the gratifying intelligence that India is quiet . The scheme for the amalgamation of the British and Indian armies has been published , and appears to be

regarded as an equitable arrangement . The native regiments are gradually to become irregular troops . The large sums sent from England in aid of the Famine Relief Fund had been received with feelingsof lively gratitude . Though the famine was still very grievous , the distress had been greatly alleviated by the generous subscriptions from all quarters , and a fall in grain had further mitigated the pressure , though there was still need of every rupee that can be raised .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

ONE ANXIOUS TO MAINTAIN THE ANCIENT LANDMARKS OE THE ORDER . —Ifc is constitutional for the S . AV . to open the lodge and proceed with the business in the absence of the AA . M . ancl P . Ms . He should wear his own jewel , and sit to the right or a little in advance of the Master's chair . MASONIC TOME . —In our description of the Masonic tomb in " Notes and Queries " last weekread " surmounted bthe " instead of

, y eye " surrounded "—an evident error . AAIIITTINGTON LODGE . —The report of the consecration of this lodge will appear next week . JORDAN LODGE . —The report arrived too late for insertion . I . N . M . —If . is not usual . PRATER . —The P . M . of a lodge , who ( in the absence of the AV . M . ) ,

in raising a brother to the third degree , read a portion of the ceremony from a printed , so-called , Ritual , is not only liable to censure , but he would be most likely suspended from the discharge of Masonic duties if reported to the Board of General Purposes . The members of the lodge had better look out , or they may lose their warrant . Bro . STARKEX . —It was no mistake , hut a studied slight , as we are in a position to prove . With regard to the parties present , and the duties performed , they were taken from official documents .