The Week.

I Gth ol June , and in the - meantime a chemical analysis will bo j made of the contents of tho stomachs . A printer , named , . AVard , of AVclchphol , Montgomeryshire , is charged with having j cut his Avife ' s throat- and his OAVU . The Avife and her mother had ; been charged -with felony , and committed for trial , but admitted j to bail . Tho shock appears to have very much depressed the unfortunate man , AA'IIO ivas highly respected iu Welchpool , and '

Avhile in this state of mind he committed tho crime Avith Avhich I he is charged . An order has been issued by tlie coroner for : fche exhumation of the body of Pierre Pelchc-r , a Frenchman iu the employ of Sir A . Rothschild , of the refinery , Tower-hill , i The deceased , ifc is alleged , Iras met his death , in consequence of j the administration of chloroform , and an inquest is to be held . ¦ i It- AA-ill be remcmbci-ed that Avhen Taylor , after stabbing Air . I Afeller afc Manchester , discharged a pistol at him , the shot took

effect on a man named Hooiey , AA'ho AV-. IS engaged at the moment in lifting Air . Mcller from the ground . Some fours were afc first entertained for his life , but we learn by the latest accounts that the bullet has been extracted , and thafc ho is now going on favourably . There is no further news respecting Taylor or tho cause of his children ' s death . Tho coroner's jury on Air . Fitzgerald have returned a verdict of Avilful murder against Beckham , the tickefc-of-leave man , who AVUS identified by Mrs .

Fitzgerald as one of the men that shot her husband . The other man is known , but has not yefc been apprehended , though a reward of £ 50 has been offered for his arrest- Other two men have been apprehended on a charge of being concerned in the conspiracy to murder .- It may be recollected that about £ 4-000 AA'orth of jcAvellei-y Avas stolen from a watchmaker ' s shop in the Kingsland-road , in the month of January last . Jlore recently a woman was brought before the magistratescharged

, attempting to pass Scotch bank-notes AA'hich had been stolen from the engraver ' s office , ant ! to Avliieh they added tho signature used by tho particular hank . A man named Benjamin Redburne , has now been examined before the magistrate at Guildhall , charged ivifch being centered in both these robberies , the proceeds of both have been found in his possession , or in places where he had access . FOHEIGN INTFJ / LTGENOF .. —The ^ loni-tenr accuses Lord

Palmerston of exaggerating fche numbers of the French army . Instead of 110 , 000 mon , as estimated by his lordship , the official journal says fche real numbers are—acfciA-e force , 430 , 000 ; reserve force , 203 , 000 men . Tho alonileur also announces that the French army of occupation in Rome is to " oe organised anew , but no details are vouchsafed . General Goyon ' s successor has been appointed . The Pairs and the Pays announce that the

Emperor has nominated his aide-de-camp , General Count cle Ivlontebello , to the command of the corps of occupation in Rome , ancl that the neiv commander AA-UI shortly set out for his post . It is now generally believed that the Marquis de Lavalefcte will nofc return to Rome . The extent of the conspiracy for an invasion of the Austrian territory , continues to be developed by the investigations and measures of the Italian goi'ernment . The papers of the emancipation and Unitarian Societies have

have been seized at Genoa , and the authorities have deemed it prudent to suspend the meetings of the rifle clubs throughout Lombardy . A considerable store of arms has been discovered and seized at Florence , and some persons have likeAviso been arrested there . The German diet having , on Saturday , definitively adopted the proposition for the re-establishment of the constitution of 1 S 31 iu Hesse Cassel , the representative of

Hesse promised that his Government ivouicl comply with the . resolution . This promise was carried out at a meeting of tho Council of Ministers , afc which it Avas resolved to re-establish th . e constitution ancl the electoral law of 1 S 31 . The dispute with tlie Diet being thus settled , there remains the personal dispute AA'ith Prussia to be arranged . ——An important and suggestive telegram arrives from . Lisbon to-day , to the effect thafc " the troubles at Oporto have been suppressed bforce . "

y Spain is going in , like the rest of the world , for iron frigates-The Spanish Minister of Marine announced to the representative Chamber on Tuesday thafc the Government is about to have seven of those vessels constructed . Despatches from Athens announce that tho president of the Council has opened the Greek Chambers iu the name of tho King . He presented to the deputies a bill on the National Guard , similar to that HOAV in force in Italyancl announced another as being in preparation

, relative to the election of representatives . This will be based on universal suffrage , bufc AVIII give only SO deputies instead of 146 , as at present . The elections will take place by province , and no one can bo named except in the division where he resides .

The Week.

INDIA AND CHINA . —There is not much interest in the news from India brought by the Calcutta mail . The papers were engaged in . discussing , in a favourable tone , the satisfactory budget of Mv . Laing . Admiral Hope AA-as active in his attacks on the rebels iu China , ancl in one of them he Avas slightly Avoundeel . Tlie imperialists had surrounded Nankin , but had gained no advantage over the rebels , AA'IIO appeared prepared to make a stout

| defence . AAIEEICA . —The IIOAVS from America , AA'hich comes CIOAVU to the evening of the 15 th inst ., is very interesting . The Confederate army had continued its retreat , Avhich is said to bo admirabl y conducted , then- skirmishers in great fovea protecting their rear and stragglers from the advanced guard of General M'Clellan ' s force , a distance of three miles only intervening between the two armies . The Federals had advanced to within 22 miles of

Richmond . It Avas thought tho Confederates Avould make a stand afc Bottom's Bridge , at the head waters ot the Chickahominy , about 15 miles from Richmond . General AVool had taken possession of Norfolk Avithout resistance , the Confederates having previously destroyed the naval yard and all the vessels . The Confederates had , moreover , blown up the terrible Merrimac to prevent its falling into the hands of the enemy . From the

Mississippi the intelligence ( considering its source ) may be regarded as favourable to the Confederates . General Poge reports thafc after a contest of five hours at a creek near Filmington , five miles from Corinth , he had been obliged to ivithdraAV in order to avoid a general engagement . The affair seems to have been a serious one , and the Federals lost a large number of men . The Confederate gun boats appear to have had the best in an attack

they made on the flotilla of Commander Foot on the Mississippi . General Beauregard was still fortifying Corinth , and each party AA-as making vast preparations for a great battle . President Lincoln had declared tlie blockade of NOAV Orleans , Beaufort , ancl Port Royal to be raised under certain conditions . A proclamafcion of General Hunter , freeing the slaves in Georgia , Florida , and South Carolina , had caused much discussion in New York , anel doubts were expressed as to Avhether the President AA'ould endorse it .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

F . AV . —The minutes of a regular lodge meeting cannot be confimred afc a Lodge of Emergency . DR . AV . T . J ., 18 ° , must excuse us if we decline publishing a letter on subjects extra Alasonic , involving the character , even for prudence , of any brother . We should move that the brother be excluded the lodgo , and leave him to his remedy

before the Board of General Purposes . BHO . J . E . —Tlie minutes of private lodges are subject to confirmation at the next meeting like those of Grand Lodge . Tho bye-laws requiring the deposit of £ 1 Is . on the proposition of a member is altogether nugatory , if the deposit is to be returned in the event of the person so proposed declining

to join or to be initiated The lodge had decidedly no right to override a bye-laiv on a A-ofce for a non-confirmation of a portion of the minutes , and the Master Avho allowed it evidently does not knoAV his duty either to tho lodge or the Craft . - T . L . asks , a lodge in a province Avithout a Prov . G . M ., is

seeming to wane ; or , move strictly , many brethren excuse themselves from assisting it , causing serious inconvenience ; on account of its not being " consecrated / 'theAvarrani dating 18 o 9 . Coulcl not the G . M . grant poAvers to any Expert brother in the province , or member of Grand Lodge , to perform the ceremony of consecrationand would he not undertake the

, duty on his expenses being guaranteed fco him by the W . M . of the loelge ? [ The G . M . coulcl clo so , and no doubt would , on being applied to , nominate a brother to perform the consecration , and there are many who would gladly to do so . ]