The Week.

small tonnage for the Philippine Islands . The government contemplates making various important reforms in the administration of the island of Cuba . Tho weather is very severe at Madrid . The cold was so great that a coachman had been frozen to death on his box , aud three washerwomen had been taken up senseless on the banks of the Manzanares . The King of Naples has been seriously ill ; there was even a report that he was dead , but , according to a telegram received from Naples , dated Thursday lasthis health had improved . On his recoveryhe is expected to

, , leave Lecce ( where he is now staying ) for Naples . Iu the meantime the Crown Princess is still at Vienna . As the King of Naples has refused to let the Russians have the port of Brindisi as a coaling station , they are now trying to obtain Barletta , Bari , or Trani . The eighty-nine political prisoners whose sentences have been commuted by the King of Naples to banishment will be dispatched to the United States . Poerio , who is an invalid , has refused the royal pardon , because , iu his opinion , it is equivalent to transportation . A feature of this week has been

the distribution of a vast variety of decorations amongst the king's friends . There are liberals perverted into royalists , there are spies iu abundance , aud commissaries of police noted for acts more or less unworthy . These are the men whom royalty has chosen to rally round the throne on the occasion of the marriage of the heir apparent . AA orth , learning , literature , and art are comparatively neglected ; what need has Naples of them ? The Count de Hatzfeld , Prussian ambassador at Paris , is dead . It is rumoured

that the Prussian government intends creating a number of new peers . The aim of tho measure would ] be to counterbalance the conservative majoirity in the upper house . On Sunday all the Bavarian ministers tendered their resignation , which however was not accepted by the king . An outcry for immediate armaments is begiuning to be raised in Denmark . The alliance popular in that kingdom is , of course , that of France . The price they expect to be paid is the full possession of the Duchies . On Monday the election of a Hospodar for Moldavia took place , aud Cousa , an advocate for the union of both principalities , was elected , and

assumed the reins of government . Moldavia has lost one of her most eminent men , M . Demetrius Ralletti , formerly minister of instruction and public worship . M . Ralletti has left his fortune to the foundling hospital at Jassy . It is said that the Austrian . ? will declare a state of siege in the States of the Church . Iu the salons of the cardinals and the Roman aristocracy , France and its government are torn to pieces , and Austria is looked for as a Messiah . As is well known , the Pope is accustomed on Christmas-eve to bless a sword and a pot , and to send them to the monarch who has best deserved them . This year , the chosen of his holiness

is Francis Joseph of Austria , In consequence of the treaty of Tien-sin , the court of Rome is occupied in reorganising the various bishoprics in China . That empire is to receive a new ecclesiastical distribution and also several new bishops . The Gazette de St . Petershourg dwells with acrimony on Austrian oppression in Lombardy . It contains the following remarkable passage , which may be taken as an indication of what attitude Russia would be likely to assume in the event of a struggle : — " It is usually said that the chief motive of the Italians in their bitter opposition towards the Austrian government is a hope of regaining their

independence . AVell , supposing it is , who could possibly object to it ? " From Turkey we learn that the weather in Roumelia has improved ; the heavy rains have ceased , and the Isfaritza has begun to return to its bed . The government is repairing the damage caused by the inundations . Bosnia is tranquil . The Kaimakan of Jeddah is discovered to have been the principal instigator of the sanguinary catastrophe at that place . The guilty parties will be conveyed to Constantinople to take their trial . A contribution of three millions of francs has been levied on the town , to be

used as reparation to the families of the victims of its fanatical inhabitants . Private letters announce that tho disturbances in the provinces surrounding Bagdad become more serious . Mehemet Bey will not return to Paris as ambassador . A despatch from Washington mentions the threatened resignation of some of the members of the cabinet . A large body of desperate men have taken the field iii Southern Kansas and are committing outrages and murders . A volunteer corps has been called out by the Governor of Missouri to oppose them . The Comanche Indians have declared war against tho whites , and are opposing the passage of the overland