The Week.

who assassinated Colonel Crofton and Captain Hanham , at Preston . Cleary has since been apprehended , ancl the Coroner's jury returned 3 verdict of wilful murder against him , upon which he was committed for trial . Mr . Sharman Crawford died on Thursday week at his seat , Crawfordsburn , near Belfast . The deceased gentleman was at one time member for Dundallc , and subsequently for the

English borough of Rochdale , and in both seats he was distinguished for liis extreme opinions , advocating tenant right in its most unqualified form for Ireland , and universal suffrage for England . FOREIGN ITELLIGEJS-CE . —The French Corps Lagislatif is summoned to meet on the 9 th of January , several weeks before the

usual time . It is probable that- the alarming financial state of the country has something to do with this . If we may believe a telegram from Berne , a curious cause is likely to be tried in the French courfcs . The Swiss Federal Council is said to have resolved

on prosecuting M . Grandguillot , the editor of the Consiitutionnel , for a libel , on the ground of his recent articles respecting she condition of Geneva . The proceedings attendant on the trial of M . Mires formally disclosed the fact , which indeed everyone divined before , that the Constitutionnel's editor is appointed by the authorities , although M . Thouvenel so recently protested to the Swiss

Envoy that the Imperial Government had no other organ than the Moniteur . So French judges will have to decide whether an editor nominated by their own Government has been guilty in law , as he certainly has been in . fact , of a libel on the administration of a neig hbouring and neutral state , for purposes which the Government can alone explain . After the ceremony of coronation ,

which was performed at Konisberg on Friday , the King of Prussia received the addresses of both houses of the Diet , and delivered a reply , in which he said : — " The Kings of Prussia have now worn the crown for 160 years . I am the first king to ascend the throne since the crown has been surmounted with institutions in harmony with our time ; but , remembering thafc the crown comes from God ,

I have notified by my coronation in a sacred place , that I have received it in humilty from his hands . " He expressed his gratitude for the love ancl fidelity shown towards him by his people , and concluded by saying— " The providence of God has preserved the blessing of peace to the dear fatherland . My valiant army will protect ifc against clangers from without . As regards dangers from the interior , Prussia will remain free of them , because the throne of her kings remains strong in its power and its ri ghts .

If the unity between king and people , which has made Prussia great , continues to exist , we shall be enabled , on the ground of acknowledged rights , to resist the clangers of an agitated period and all the threatening storms . May God will it so . " . Their Majesties the King and Queen of Prussia made a public entry into Berlin on Tuesday . AVe learn by telegraph that the reception accorded them by the inhabitants of the capital was in the highest

degree enthusiastic , and that their Majesties showed themselves highly gratified by the loyal demonstrations of their subjects . ——The anniversary of the plebiscite by which the people of Naples declared their adhesion to Victor Emmanuel , occurred on Monday . The event was celebrated with great enthusiasm in the city , ancl the English ships of \» M in the Bay of -Naples were dressed with

flags in honour of the clay . According to the Paris correspondent of the Times , the French Cabinet has replied to the Italian government ' s proposals for a settlement of the Papal question , that "the economical ancl financial difficulties in which France finds herself , make it impossible for the moment to deal with a question which would serve as a rallying point to all those opposed to the

government , and thus make tho position doubly embarrassing . " The Turin papers report a brutal murder committed on an Italian youth by some four or five Austrian officers at Montecchio . The circumstances as they are narrated are of the most revolting nature ; but remembering the hatred that is entertained to everything Austrian in that country , we hesitate to believe that the case occurred exactly as the Italian newspapers report it . The

Pope , angered by the Jesuit Father Passaglia ' s rec nt pamphlet , advocating a renunciation of the Papacy ' s tempor 1 sovereignty , and by his absolute refusal to retract his opinions , w s not satisfied with suspending him from the exercise of priestly i notions , but ordered him to be arrested . But Father Passaglia could not be found in the house ofthe Engilsh Catholic lady with whom he

usually resided , although his papers were there seized ; and hitherto the Papal authorities seem to have gained for their trouble little or nothing but a protest from the English lady against the intrusion of the police into her dwelling . The decree of the Austrian Government ordering the collection of the taxes , a decree issued in default of au authorising vote of the Reichsrath , has beeu well

received on the Vienna exchange and by the bankers , as it secures the payment ofthe dividends . Neither is the decree , as was thought , unconstitutional ; for the patent of February , which founds the constitution , provides for the case which has happened . But this does not make fche demand for taxes more palatable , especially in Hungary . One of the latest acts of the

Government has been to give notice to the municipality of Arad to pay up arrears within five days , otherwise the private property ofthe members of that body will be seized and sold . From his continental retreat , M . Kossuth has addressed an elaborate letter on the affairs of Hungary fco a friend in Glasgow . He expresses his approval of the attitude assumed by the dissolved Diet ,

and commends the policy of passive resistance to the Austrian government . He , of course , scouts the proposal of a compromise with the House of Hapsburg , bnt still advises his countrymen to bide their time . The present state of things is almost insupportable , and must soon come to an end ; but he desires that Italy and

Hungary should act together against their common enemy , and that , if possible , not a gun should be fired on the Danube , until the Italians are ready to march upon Venice . The Catholic ecclesiastics in Poland seem determined to push matters to extremities wifch the Russian Government . On the ground that some of the churches had been profaned by the forcible entrance of the military during the late disturbances , the General Consistory of the Archbishopric

of Warsaw have issued a circular letter ordering all the churches to be closed in order to prevent any further profanation . The accounts from Cracow state that the military entered several of the churches and conveyed all the male portion of the congregations to the citadel ; half of them were subsequently released , but the remainder , to the number of 2 , 000 , were to be drafted into different regiments .

A brief telegram from Warsaw states that the agitation is increasing , and that the Government is adopting measures more ancl more stringent . A protest has been addressed to the authorities by the administrator of the Catholic cathedral against the entrance of the military into the churches ; but the Government has replied thafc the Catholic clergy themselves are responsible for the closing of

the places of worship . There has been a riot inPesth , which the military hacl to suppress by use of their arms . Ifc arose out of a proposed charivari which the people intended for the new Government commissary , ancl which the authorities prohibited . These commissaries have an unpleasant position . Only the other day , one of them on arriving at the scene of his authority , the place where he

was to restore obedience to the law , could find nowhere to lay his head . He was actually refused admission not only to the town-hall and other public buildings , but hotels and private lodgings would not admit him . Assisted by the military , he , at length , got shelter in the house of a Jew . An incident like this shows what the public feelings is . Letters

from Sfc . Petersburg , of the loth instant , represent that the excitement caused by the closing and dissolution of the University is far from subsiding . Detachments of troops and gendarmes have dispersed assemblages of the students , whose conduct has generally been orderly . The citizens seem to sympathise with the students , and it is noteworthy that their sympathyappears to be shared by some military officers and cadets . There is likewise an ominous statement that means have been found to