The Miner. — 1863-04-04 (London, England)

EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK.  Fon the last few days the newspapers have been largely occupied with assize reports, in which have been recorded the trial and conviction of several men for murder. Only last week the great moral teacher, Calera% exercised his office on three unhappy wretches who had been doomed to death. While all these things are yet fresh in the publip mind we have another murder to record. Yesterday morning an artilleryman named Alfred Holden, stationed at Chatham, sent his wife out on an errand, and immediately killed his infant child by nearly severing its head from its body. He was shortly taken into custody, and admitted the crime, adding that he had done it to be hung, in order that he might escape from the tyranny of his sergeant. THE Bishop of Oxford has issued a pastoral letter to his clergy, forbidding them to allow Bishop Colenso to minister in the diocese of Oxford. His lordship describes the Bishop of Natal's speculations as rash and feeble, and declares they would have no weight were it not for the office of their author. A SPECIAL Court of Common Council has been held, to take into consideration a communication received from Sir George Grey in reference to the appointment of a chief commissioner of the City police. It is understood that the effect of the communication is to request the Corporation not to appoint a chief commissioner until the motion of Sir De Lacy Evans, as to the amalgamation of the City and Metropolitan police, has been disposed of in the House of Commons. LORD PALMERSTON has been installed Lord Rector of Glasgow University. The installation took place in St. John's Church. Previous to the ceremony addresses were presented to his lordship— one having reference to Poland. In his inaugural address, the new Lord Rector gave some very excellent advice to the students as to the studies they should pursue. He was loudly cheered. In the evening his lordship was entertained by the civic dignitaries at a banquet in the City Hall.  FRESH rumours of the resignation of M. Fould have been rife on the Paris Bourse, and caused a great sensation there. According to some later statements, the report was wholly unfounded; others affirmed that the resignation had been tendered, but refused. ARCHBISHOt FELINSKI, of Warsaw, has, it is stated, addressed a very important letter to the Emperor of Russia. The Archbishop maintains that the only means of pacifying Poland is to unite all the Russo-Polish provinces with the existing kingdom into one Polish kingdom under the Russian Crown. Until this is done, the Archbishop declares that the country may be devastated, but that submission is impossible. If the Archbishop, a moderate man, who was very unpopular with the Polish people not long since for his moderation, has really addressed to the Emperor such a letter as this, it is a very important sign of the times: Meanwhile, the partisan warfare in Poland is carried on by the insurgents as spiritedly as ever. The Paris Nation of last evening (a journal of very anti-revolutionary principles) describes the insurrection as becoming more and more difficult to suppress. This journal, too, deelares that England and France are agreed upon the end to be attained in regard to Poland, and that it is probable Austria will not delay entering upon the same path. ONE of Scharf's telegrams from Vienna states that the assertion made by the Cologne Gazette about France demanding the independence of Poland, under the sovereignty of the Duke de Leuchtenberg, is wholly unfounded. THE press of Copenhagen strongly opposes the candidature of Prince William for the Greek throne. The Paris Moniteur asserts that the King of Denmark has expressed him'delf favourably towards it. A sitting of the Danish Privy Couneil Was to have been held yesterday, to consider and decide upon the question. THE Paris papers publish a telegram from Alexandria reporting the massacre of two Christians in Damascus. Many of the Christian inhabitants to be leaving the city in terror.  Mn.