The Week.

Robson , Redpath , Agar , Tester , and Saward , alias Jem the Penman . They are all engaged on the public ivorks , making roads , & e . Redpath ancl Robson are engaged wheeling stones , Avith shackles upon their persons . Theiv health appears to be good , but they seem Avretched ancl dejected , ancl Aveary of their lives . The celebrated Rci ' . Dr . Beresford , AVIIO , Avith a living of .- £ 1 , 000 a year , committed forgery to an enormous extent , has also arrived in the above named colony , and is

employed daily iu sweeping the wards in the new convict prison . Public meetings have been helcl all over the country during the week to discuss the government reform bill , and very strong resolutions have been carried against the measure . At a great meeting at the Guildhall on Friday , presided over by the Lord Mayor , a body of chartists , headed by Mr . Ernest Jones , ivere present , and created great uproar . One event of the Aveek is of a very interesting character . An American ship AVUS seen to enter the harbour of Queenstoivu , ancl a very little

time elapsed before it ivas known that she had on board some seventy exiles , lately captives in the dungeons of Xaples , aud that amongst them ivas no loss a person than the virtuous and heroic Poerio . Shipped by order of the Xeapolitau government for America , they had reached the bay of Cadiz , Avhen they made such representations to the captain of the vessel as induced him to steer for the Irish coast , and the fugitives are IIOAV safe , nuclei' tho protection of British laws . Their ultimate destination is as yet undetermined . The new breech-loading cannon

, invented by Mr . AVarry , has been again experimented with at Chatham . The in-A'cntor has effected another groat improvement in the method of firing it , hy which nearly twenty rounds per minute can be discharged . Air . AVarry ' s breech-loading invention can be applied to any metal guns , of Avhatever size , which can be riflecl and rendered fit for service at an estimated cost of one-fourth the expense of turnm " out one of Sir AA \ Armstrong ' s rifled camions . Tho greatest despatch is used at all the dockyards in getting men-of-war ready for sea . At Chatham , AVoohvich ,

and Pembroke , many hundred extra shipivrights and other artificers have been taken on , anel are working extra time upon the various men-of-Avar . In the House of Lords on Tuesday , Lord AVodehouse moved for additional papers in the matter of the Charles et Georges , and censured the conduct of government in that affair . Lord Malmesbury and the Earl of Derby defended their foreign policy , and the motion AV .-IS Avithdrawn . On Thursday , the Lord Stanley of Alder-ley called attention to the settlement oi : Singapore , ancl asked ivhat form of government had been determined on . The Earl of Carnarvon said that nothing had yet boon settled . The Lord Chancellor introduced a bill to amend the laiv of grand Ulrica . In the House of Commons on Tuesday , Air . Gladstone took his seat on his

re-election for the University ot Oxford . Air . Kmglake made a similar motion to that of Lord AVodehouse in the Lords , with regard to tho Charles et Georges , and censuring government . A long debate ensued , in the course of ivhich Lord John Russell expressed opinions favourable to ministers . Tlie debate was eventually adjourned . The subject of discussion on AVednesday was the Church Rates Bill of Mr . AValpole , Avhich was strongly opposed by Sir John Trelawney and many others , and supported by tho Avhole strength of the government . Ministers suffered a defeatthe measure having been lost by 251 to 171 . On Thursday

, , after notice had been given by Lord John Russell , Air . Allies , and Air . AVyld , of sundry amendments to the neiv reform bill , the Chancellor of the Exchequer stated that it ivas not intended that any person should be disfranchised , and in fact gave the house to understand that his bill Avould bo modified to satisfy all parties . A very late sitting was occupied by debates on the law as regards savings banks , on military organization , on church rates , and on the state of our relation witli France as to the Xeivfoundland fisheries . On Friday , further notices of

amendments to the new reform bill AA'ere given , ancl the house AA'ont into a committee of supply , in the course of which a long discussion ivas originated by Lord Clarence Paget on the state of tho navy . On Alonday , Sir J . Packington said , in consequence of the statement by Lord C . Paget , that out of the money granted dining the last elei'eu years for dockyards an amount of not less than £ 5 , 000 , 000 had been recklessly squandered , he should , on the earliest day , lay on tho table a full and detailed statement as to the AA'ay in AA'hich the money had been appropriated . AVith reference to the main drainage of the metropolis , AIv . Tito said that