The Week.

For some time the deceased remonstrated ; the prisoner , however , persisted , aiid at length a scuffle ensued , in which the prisoner inflicted a severe blow on the head of the deceased . On being picked up it was found that the deceased had sustained serious injuries . A surgeon found that the deceased was severely bruised , and bleeding from both ears . He died on the following day from the

ininjuries he had sustained . The jury found the prisoner guilty , and he was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment with hard labour . A dreadful murder was perpetrated on the Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway a few days ago . The victim was a gate watchman in the employ of the company . After the murder his body was placed upon the line manifestly with the intention that the death

of the unfortunate man should be attributed to a railway accident . A step-son of the deceased has been arrested on suspicion . One of the most atrocious trade outrages it has been our lot to record for many a day took place at Sheffield on Saturday

morning . A man named AVestnidge was working for somewhat lower wages than the trades union permitted , and the unionists sought to punish him by throwing a tin filled with gunpowder , with a hurning fusee attached , into his bed-room . The cowards did not even pitch on the right room , but threw it into one where a widow woman was sleeping . Westnidge ' s wife , however , hearing the

noise , came into the room and took up the tin , when it exploded in her face . Both women were shockingly burned , but Mrs . Westnidge was also so frightened that she leaped out of the window , and it is feared she cannot survive . The inquiry into the recent riotous conduct of the cadets at Woolwich has resulted in an order for the "rustication " of two of

the offenders for twelve months , and of ei ght others for six months . ¥ e have intelligence of the loss of another Baltic steamer , tho Hebe . This ship , which was on her way from Cronstacit to Hull , is stated to be the fifteenth steamer engaged in the Baltic trade winch has been wrecked within the last twelve months .

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The Emperor of the French has abolished the tourniquets of the Bourse , or in other words the tax on entering that establishment . If the Patrie really expresses the Emperor Napoleon's intentions , M . Fonld must resort to some other remedy than a disarmament for the cure of that "consumption of the purse'' which affliefs the French treasury . The Patrie

has set itself to demonstrate the impossibility of reducing the I'rench army , because Austria , Prussia , Russia , and England have large military establishments on foot : and we have been assured that nothing more can he done than to dismiss a largo number of soldiers on furlough—a measure which may lessen military expenditure , but which will nowise diminish the apprehensions caused

throughout Europe by the menacing strength of the French army , inasmuch as the men on furlough may be recalled to their regiments within a fortnight . The Patrie also states that there will not he any reduction of the French navy ' s effective strength , and that any ships of the line put out of commission will be re-placed

by iron-eased frigates . At the same time , too , there arc rumours that several ships will be added to the squadron stationed at Brest . The new King of Portugal has come forth from his retirement , and presided at a council of ministers , at which it was resolved that a constitutional policy should continue to be pursued . In the Spanish Senate , a motion was recently proposed censuring the

government for its conduct in regard to the late Loja insurrection . Marshal Narvacz , who has not attended the Senate for many years , was present , and took part in the debate . He severely condemned the government , as well for its previous acts towards the people of Loja , which he declared to havo caused the insurrection , as for its relentless severity in suppressing the outbreak , and in

punishinowith indiscriminate violence tho guilty and the innocent alike . The motion for censure was lost by a large majority , but Narvaez ' s speech is said to have produced a very marked sensation . The quarrel which Spain insists upon keeping up with Italy on the trumpery subject of the Neapolitan archives has now reached such a hei ght

that Baron Teeco , the Italian ( or as the Spanish journals term him the Sardinian ) Minister , has demanded and received his passports . The point of dispute appears to have beon narrowed to very small dimensions ; hut the Spanish government clinging firmly to the ultimatum which it had announced , the Italian minister seems to have thought there was no use in debating tho matter any further .

Spain has taken every means she could from the beginning of the Italian revolution to express her sympathies with the cause of the Bourbons as offensively to the Italian government as she could well contrived to do . After a long and animated discussion the Italian Chamber of Deputies on Saturday passed the hill for levying the war tax on all the provinces in the kingdom . The majority for tho

measure was very large , being 191 against 10 . This shows that the southern party in the Chamber is not very strong . It is stated that the differences between General Cialchni and the Government are settled , and that he will resume command of the 4 th corps d ' armee . According to some of the Italian papers Garibaldi is about to visit Genoa , early in December , for the purpose of

assisting in fhe deliberations of the Committee of Prevision , which ho himself established . He will then , it is stated , set out for Turin and take his place as a member of the Chamber of tho Representatives . A Milan journal states that the Italian government , having in view eventualities which might arise out of the Mexican affair , has determined upon despatching a frigate to the Mexican

waters . The municipal authorities of Vienna have voted a sum of 10 , 000 florins to enable a certain number of intelligent artizans of limited means to visit the International Exhibition of London

in the coming year . The relations between the Swiss and French governments , already sufficiently embittered , are likely to be still further complicated—the Swiss Federal Council having formally demanded satisfaction for a violation of the territory of the canton of Geneva by French gendarmes . A letter has been published which the Pope addressed last June to the Archbishop of Warsaw ,

iu which his Holiness repels warmly the charges made against the Holy Sec of being indifferent to the interests of Poland . He refers to the frequent remonstrances addressed from time to time by tho Holy See to the Russian government on behalf of tho Catholics of Poland , and declares that he has himself written several letters to the Emperor Alexander , to obtain the free exercise of the Catholic

religion in Poland , hut without effect . According to a despatch from Constantinople , the Porto has formally announced to the Envoys of the Great Powers that it will consent to a union of Moldavia and AVallachia during the lifetime of the reigning prince Couza ; and this proposal is to be accepted as a settlement of the question for the present . The struggle between the Turks and

insurgents is again actively carried on . Tho last encounters appear to have been favourable to the Turks . On the 21 st , Dervish Pacha , after a fight of four hours , defeated , with great loss , a body of 8000 insurgents , near Piva , in Bosnia . Another body which attempted to invade Kaloschin was also repulsed after a bloody fight ; and 40 Montenegrin barges which attempted to capture a

Turkish steamer on the Lake of Scutari , were also repulsed with loss . A telegram from Ragusa says that in consequence of tho defeat of the insurgents at Piva , the European consuls had proposed an armistice . It is not said whether tho proposition has been accepted . Omar Pacha had received fresh reinforcements , which may induce him to push the advantages he has already obtained .

THE CARE . —The C ^ pe mail has arrived at Plymouth . The relations of Panda , the chief of Zulus , were again of a threatening character , that personage and his son having demanded tho young princes , who were under the care of Bishori Colanso Ketchwayo . The elder sou is said to be jealous of his brothers and anxious to get them in his power . There was still danger of

hostilities between the Orange Free State , that very aggressive Dutch republic , aud the Basutus , a tribe whose fertile territory is coveted by their unscrupulous neighbours .