The Week.

her gratitude both for the ivarmth aud splendour of her recep tion in the metropolis and for the jewellery then presented . She trusts that she ivill ever prove herself worthy of the attachment then lavished on her , which she is ivell aware is due to the virtues of the illustrious family of which she lias now become a member . Tbe new Bishop of Gloucester and the neiv Bishop of Goulburn , a colonial diocese lying between

Melbourne and Sydney , ivere consecrated on AVednesday , with all due ceremonial , in Canterbury Cathedral . The funeral of Sir James Outram took place on Wednesday . The body was interred in Westminster Abbey , near to the grave of the- late *" Mr . Robert Stephenson . Another addition has been made to our fleet of iron-clads , the Ocean , a converted

line-of-battleship of the Boyal Oak class , having been launched at Devonport . The formation of a park for Finsbury continues to meet with great opposition at the Board of AVorks . At their weekly meeting Mr . Doulton called attention to the circumstance that in 1859 the board passed a resolution to the effect that they would not make the park till they had other monies

in their possession than they then held . But to this day they have no such other monies . He proposed , therefore , to take the opinion of counsel ivhether they were not bound to rescind that resolution of 1859 before they carried out the resolution to construct the park which they came to a few weeks ago . After some discussion this motion was agreed to . We

regret to learn from Staleybridge that serious rioting has taken place in that town . It commenced on Friday , the 20 th , the great cause of complaint being an alteration in the mode of distributing relief—the Committee having decided to substitute tickets for money . Several other changes were introduced , but the outbreak appears to be almost entirely traceable to the adoption of the ticket system . The outrages committed on

Friday and Friday night ivere of a most disgraceful character . Property to a serious amount was pillaged or destroyed , and for a time the town ivas completely at the mercy of an infuriated mob—composed , to a large extent , we regret to say , of women . Eighty-two of the rioters were apprehended , and brought before the Magistrates on the following day , when 29 of them—all , with one exception , Irishmen—were committed

for trial . The disturbances were renewed on Saturday , after it became known that the Committee refused to submit to the dictation of the mob , and ivould for the present at least adhere to the obnoxious arrangement . The authorities had secured the assistance ef a tr oop of Hussars , and a considerable body of the county police ; but , nothwithstanding these precautions ,

the rioters resumed their operations , and baffling the military and police , either sacked provision shops or overawed tradesmen into compliance with their demands for food . On Monday there ivas a renewal of the disturbances at Staleybridge , and riots at Ashton , Dukinfield , and Hyde . At the latter places , however , it seems pretty clear that the

mischief was clone by the turbulent fellows with whom the outbreak at Staleybridge originated . Mr . Baron Martin , in his charge to the grand jury at Liverpool , referred to the total absence from the calendar of offences ivhieh could be traced to the existing distress ; and we cordially join with Mr . Farnall , in the hope he expressed at the meeting of the Central Committee " that the

benevolent people of England will not conclude that the portion of the ivorkpeople of Staleybridge , who have been misled , lepresent the operatives of the cotton districts . " The Central Committee have passed the folloiving resolution : — " That whilst deeply lamenting the late disturbances , they entirely approved of the reduction in the scale of relief , and the distribution of that relief by ticket—a plan calculated to prevent the irregularities Jwhich have been complained of , and which

must be for the obvious advantage of the families of the recipients of relief . " A special meeting of the Mansion House Relief Committee ivas held to consider the urgent application for relief made to them from Staleybridge . The Rev . Thomas Floyd , a clergyman of the toivn , attended , and to some extent explained the causes of the outbreak . There had been causes of irritation existing for some time ; and though the rev .

gentleman ivonld not condemn the change in the mode of relief , from money to tickets , still he thought the time selected for the change was injudicious . The committee voted £ 500 , to be distributed in money by the local relief committee , if they ivould take charge of it . A terrible affray occurred at Blackwall , on Thursday night , the 19 th inst .,

between the marines and sailors of the Peruvian corvette Arica , ivho are temporarily accommodated on board the hulk Venus It is stated that the marines had an old grudge against their officers , and that on Thursday night , while many of them were in a state of intoxication , they broke out into open mutiny . The officers called upon the sailors to assist them

in restoring order . The summons ivas complied with , and a fearful encounter took place between the seamen and the mutineers . Pour of the latter were killed , three were dangerously lvounded ; and an officer of marines either jumped , or was thrown overboard , and perished . In addition to these , a large number of the combatants on both sides received

injuries more or less serious , and one or two of the crew who scrambled through the portholes during the melee are missing . There seems some doubt about the jurisdiction to AA'hich the mutineers are amenable ; as serving on board a Peruvian man of war they are . liable to the martial law- of their own country ; hut an inquest has been held on the dead bodies by the coroner for the east of London , and a verdict

of manslaughter against a marine returned . James Stephens , charged with the murder of Emma Bottomley , at Batley Carr , near Deivsbury , has been committed for trial . A verdict of Avilful murder has been ' returned against John Green , charged ivith that crime at Whittlesea , and he has been committed for trial . Noah Austin , convicted of the murder of James Allen at Heyford , has been executed at Oxford Castle . An inquest

has been held on an old woman who has died in one of the cellars in Gray's Inn-lane , discloses a frightful state of affairs in that dirty and densely-crowded locality . She died of bronchitis and pulmonary affection . A most deserved punishment was inflicted on a fellow named Annett at Tunbridge , on Tuesday . The brute had treated a bull in an atrociously cruel

manner , the poor creature dying in agony in a few minutes . The bench before ivhom Annett ivas brought sentenced hhn in effect to three months' imprisonment . A sad accident took place on Saturday morning at Accrington , by which five men have lost their lives . A co-operative society in the town had begun to build a cotton mill—we presume before the famine

overtook them . Six men were engaged in plastering the walls of the building when one of the floors fell in . One of them had a narrow escape , as he ivas just entering the building , and had time to get out . One man has been taken out dead ; the others were , by the last accounts , lying crushed and buried under the heavy beams of iron and wood and the other debris

which the fall of the flooring brought with it . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The Dictator of Poland , Langieivicz , has been defeated by the Russians , and compelled to take refuge in Gallicia , and his followers completely dispersed . Ou Wednesday , the 18 th , the insurgents under Langieivicz ivere attacked by the Russians near a place called Gagoscie or Zagoscie , and the engagement lasted the whole day—a Russian account stating that the Polish loss amounted to 400 killed . Their