Obituary.

Obituary .

Died , at his residence at Finch ley , ou the 10 th inst ., Bro . J . C . C . Millward , Past Master of the Mauritius Lodge ol Harmony ( No . 1113 ) , & c , —a brother highly respected and esteemed .

The Week.

THE WEEK .

THE COTIEX . —Her Majesty , Prince Alfred , and the younger members of the Royal Family continue at Balmoral . The Prince and Princess of Hesse left London for Brussels and Darmstadt on Saturday . Tho Prince and Princess of Wa remain in London . They were present at a private view of the Dog Show on at Islington on Monday , and visited the Hay market Theatre on Tuesday , and the Horticultural Show on Wednesday

IMPEEIAL PAELIAJIENT . —In the House of Lords on Thuisday , 23 rd inst ., Earl Granville stated , in reply to a question of the Duke of Rutland , that the subject of the purchase of the Great Exhibition building of 18 G 2 was under the consideration of the Government , and in so forward a state that it would be brought before Parliament . After two or three bills had been forwarded

a stage , their lordships adjourned until Monday , the 1 st of June-GENEEAL HOME NEWS . —The health of the metropolis has now sensibly'improved . The number of deaths amounted to 1259 , which is the lowest they liavo been in any week since the month of October Jasb year . Indeed this is the first week ol the present year that the mortality has fallen below 1300 . Still

the deaths are above the average , which during the corresponding week for the last ten years is 1219 . It appears that the mortality from small-pox has not abated . The births during the week amount to 18 SS , the ten years give an average of 1902 . It is semi-officially announced that Lord Grey is to have the vacant Garter . We aro glad to learn that there is no ground whatever for anxiety as to the condition of Lord Clyde , whose illness is represented to have been greatly exaggerated . A

decrease of 5287 in the number of persons receiving parochial relief in the cotton districts is reported by Mr . Farnall . It is stated that the negociations for a commercial treaty between England and Italy are progressing most favourably , and that ere long the preliminaries may be announced as settled . A curious case has just been decided by the House of Lords . The great Lord Give established a charitable fund which has since

borne his revered name ; but the deed by which he made a large grant for this purpose provided that , in the event of the East India Company ceasing to employ ships for their commerce , and a military force in the East Indies , the money should revert to his estate , subject only to existing pensions . The Company has now neither ships nor soldiers , and Sir J . B . Walsh ,

as the representative of Lord dive , claimed the fuid , which represents a large sum . The Secretary of State for India opposed this claim , and the . Master of the Rolls disallowed it . But the decision of the court below has been reversed by the House of Lords , and Sir J . Walsh inherits the fund , subject , of course , to the pensions granted before the passing of the act of 1858 .

The House of Lords has granted Major Yelverton one month ' s further time for the preparation of his case . It is thought probable that the appeal against the decision of the Court of Session in favour of Mrs . Yelverton will be heard in July . — — An important and highly-satisfactory combined naval and volunteer review took place ou Monday at Southend ; 350 marines

landing under cover of the fire of five gun boats and carrying the cliffs . The Armstrong battery from Shoeburyness held the right of the volunteer position , and Captain Edenborough ' s

battery from Waltham Abbey the centre and the left . Vice Admiral Sir Hope Johnstone , Colonel M'Murdo , and several Russian officers of distinction were on the ground ; and Colonel M'Murdo addressed the volunteers at the close . The 29 th-Middlesex Rifles had a field day on Monday at Camden Park , Chiselhurst , where it will be recollected Lord Rauelagb three years ago set the fashion of trying the metal of our Volunteers .

Although the 29 th were not joined , as was expected , by other London corps , nevertheless the Held was such a decided success as would justify its repetition at frequent opportunities . Mr . Roebuck addressed a large open air meeting of his constituents at Sheffield on Monday , on the subject of the American war . The lion , gentleman urged that the attempt of the North

to subjugate the South was perfectly hopeless ; and he submitted that it was a duty which . England owed to herself and to the world to recognise the independence of the Southern Confederacy . At the close of Mr . Roebuck ' s speech , the Rev . Mr . Hopps moved a resolution urging that the . English Government should enter into communications witn the other European

powers with the view of securing a general recognition of the South . This proposition was met by an amendment in favour of a continuance of the present policy of non-intervention ; but on a show of hands being taken , the views of Mr . Roebuck and Mr . Hopps were endorsed by " an overwhelming majority . " The Royal Agricultural Society have had a meeting in tho

Hanover-square Rooms , Lord Eversley , the president , in the chair . Among other matters , a favourable report was given of the progress of the preparations making for the Society ' s show at Worcester , which is to be held there in July , from the 21 st to the 21 th . The trial of implements is fixed to take place in the previous week , from the 15 th to the 18 th of July . The magistrates of the county of Middlesex have held a

meeting , at which , among other matters , reports were received on the state of the county prisons , which were deemed to be on the whole satisfactory . Mr . Baker moved a series of resolutions , lowering the dietary of the prisons , because , he said , the present scale was higher than was usually enjoyed by working men , and instances had been known of persons committing offences in order to be transferred from the Avorkhouse to the prison

After some conversation this motion was agreed to . The report of a committee on the subject of granting licences to music and dancing-halls was received . The committee had delayed their report for some time , hearing a report that Government was about to take up the subject , but finding that to be a mistake , they recommended certain alterations in the

mode of applying for such licences , which are to be taken into consideration on a future day . The election of a Commissioner of Police for the City , in the room of the late Mr . Daniel Whittle Harvey , has taken place . The electors were the members of the Court of Common Council . There were twelve candidates , all of them military men . Colonel

Eraser was declared to be duly elected . A painful inquiry has been necessitated by the death of a lady of 57 , who has committed suicide at Clapbam , driven to distraction by poverty , made doubly distressing from having been preceded by easy circumstances . There is reason , however , to believe that intemperance partially led to tYie suicide . Several persons have

narrowly escaped a terrible death at Bradford . A druggist in , that town appears to have purchased , in the usual way of business , a quantity of " cream of tartar , " which , as events have proved , was largely impregnated with arsenic . This poisoned medicine he unwittingly retailed to his customers , and the result has been very serious in many instances . No deaths , however , have occurred , nor does it appear that a fatal issue is apprehended in the case of any of the persons who are now suffer