The Week.

Monitors Toscano states that the Duke of Modeua has carried away the money bolonging to several public offices , besides S 00 ; 000 f . which were in the treasury at Reggio , being resolved not to leave anything for the French . Tho Prince ai Wales is expected at Lisbon daily , and will remain some fifteen days , a telegraphic message to this effect having been received from the queen by the British minister . A meeting of the chief Lisbon merchants has been called to decide upon the best way of honouring the prince ' s coming , and also to frame the address to be presented to him . Doubtless the King of Portugal will do his best to make the

short stay of the Prince of Wales agreeable , on acccount of the very friendly relations he maintains with the British court . In reply to a direct question the other day , the minister stated in the chamber of peers that , in the existing state of affairs on tho continent , it is the intention of Portugal to maintain a strict neutrality . A proclamation has been addressed to the Neapolitan people by its new king , Francis II ., on his ascent to the throne . The expectations which wore by some connected with this event are not realized by the proclamation . It is a

meaningless document , Signor Antonini has arrived in Paris from Naples for the purpose of notifying to the French government the accession to the throne of Naples by Francis II . It is asserted that he will also go to London and Brussels for the purpose of making a similar announcement at thc courts of those cities . The late king was buried on Friday amid the most perfect tranquillity . The newspaper reports about divisions in the royal family are unfounded . Naples and Sicily are perfectly quiet . News from Constantinople of the 20 th , says that the

Porte is fitting out a small squadron to cruise in tho Adriatic , for observing the Montenegrins . Tho whole north-western angle of the Byzantine peninsula is iu an agitated condition . The insurrection in thc Herzegovina has broken out with renewed fury , and tho Montenegrins are openly supporting it . In Servia the people show their hostile intentions against the Porte as well as Austria , in the most unmistakable way . The American journals received by Monday ' s mail are occupied in discussing the outbreak of war in Europe , aud the " probabilities of America being involved . The failures of Messrs . llargoiis Brothers and Messrs .

Meyer and Stucken are announced . A collision was expected between the United States troops and those , of the Utah militia . General Walker , at the head of 300 men , had landed at Acapulco . The Brazilian legislature was opened on the 10 th of May . Owing to the prevalence of very bad weather the roads had been rendered impassable , from which cause little produce had come to market . Great damage had been done by the heavy rains , and the railway also had suffered from this cause . By the overland mail wc have received advices from Bombay to tho I 2 th ult , The embers of the revolt are fast dying outour troops harassing tho straggling parties

, of the rebels and dispersing them with much loss , wherever overtaken ; but the wiser of them were quickly surrendering . A slight disturbance has broken out in Seinde , in theParkur district . Troops had been sent to suppress it , and the Rami had fled . Some of thc European troops late in the service of the East India Company , chiefly artillery and cavalry , stationed tit Mcerut , have shown mutinous symptoms of dissatisfaction in consequence of their transfer to the Crown . Tho dinner given by the European inhabitants of Bombay to her Majesty ' s 78 th

Hihg landers , on the 28 th ult ., went off with the greatest success . The government of India opened the o ! , per cent , loan on the 1 st ult . it has also announced tho issue of treasury bills bearing interest at 2 ^ pics per diem . There was a fearful pressure ou the Bombay money market . Thc overland mail also brings us advices front Melbourne to tho 16 th , and from Sydney to the 10 th of April . In Melbourne the Registration Act is said to be so imperfect a measure that under it the bulk of the people will be disfranchised . Iu Sydney the assembly had been dissolved . The

new parliament will be chosen under the new colonial electoral act . There was little change in the prospects of tho gold fields or the state of the labour market . A case of defalcation by George Terry , a Leeds tradesman , has occurred . The delinquent was a Grand Master of tho Odd Fellows' Provident Society , and has made away with . £ 1 , 000 . Trust has been extensively abused , and the result is au amount of distress among tho industrial and provident poor , which is deeply to be deplored . The Earl of Shrewsbury has brought au action for tho recoveiy of the estates which were bequeathed by the late Earl to the infant sou of the Duke of