The Week.

half of the prisoner , however , insisted that the charge should be proceeded with . Mr . Sleigh consented , and then the Recorder suggested that the case should be removed to tho Court of Queen's Bench . To this Mr . Sleigh assented . Application was made that Hayes , pending the result , should be admitted to bail . The Recorder , however , refused this . There was a great rowing match on the

Thames on the 22 nd ult . for the championship of the river . The competitors were Robert Chambers , of J ^ ewcastle , the present champion , ancl a famous oarsman named Sadler , of London . Sadler got off with the lead , but Chambers was overhauling him when Sadler fouled Chambers . Sadler rowed on and came in first , but the umjiire on appeal decided in favour of Chambers .

Mr . Henry Freeling AA ilkiuson , late manager of the Joint-Stock Discount Company , was brought up again at the Mansion House on the 23 rd charged with having appropriated cheques belonging to the company to his own use . Several witnesses were examined , and Mr . Wilkinson was committed for trial , the Lord Mayor declining to admit him to bail . One of the

most atrocious cases of cruelty to animals that could well be conceived has been brought to light at the Middlesex Sessions . The perpetrators of the brutal act were two more boys , named Powell and Battley , and the victim of the barbarity , a horse . The evidence against them went to show that they subjected the unfortunate animal to a death of

the utmost torture , without any apparent cause beyond tho allegation of tho owner of tho liorsa that it ivas douo to " spito him . " Powell , who soomod to havo boon tho principal actor in tho horrid business , was | sentenced to two years' hard labour , and Battley , who had not been committed for trial by tho magistrate before whom tho case at first came , ivas ordered to bo taken into custody , which vras then and thoro dono

On tho 2 tith ult ., Lord John Manners received an influential deputation of working mon , who sought to obtain from tho Government permission to hold a Reform demonstration in ono of tho public parks . Tho views of tho deputation woro urged by Mr . George Potter aud other speakers with considerable force . Lord John Manners , who received tho deputation with groat courtesy , and said that ho fully recognised tho right of tho

working classes to assemble in public mooting for tho purpose of expressing thoir opinion of tho conduct of Parliament , declined to givo an answer until after the Cabinet Council iu tho afternoon . Thoro was a largo gathering of tho bar and spectators in tho Court of Common Pleas on tho 2 Cth ult ., when Chiof Justice Erlo took his leave of tho court . Tho Attorney-GeneralSir

, John Rolf , delivered an address to his lordship in tho name of the bar , and tho Chief Justice replied in a fow sentences full of fooling-Mr . Doulton , M . P ., has some good advice given to him from the judicial bench . Ho applied through counsel to tho Court of Queen ' s Bench for a rule calling upon tho publisher of a contemporary to show causo why a criminal information

should not bo filed against him for a libol . Tho alleged libol consisted of a string of condemnatory epithets applied to Mr . Doulton's political tergiversation . The Lord Chief Justice heard the application , and decided promptly that the court could not entertain it . Tho alleged libel was , he said , a comment upon Mr . Doulton ' s political conduct , and lie

could not understand why public men should be so thin-skinned . At the Mansion House a fresh charge was preferred against Mr . Wilkinson , late fhe manager of the Joint-Stock Discount Company . He was charged with appropriating a cheque for £ 2 , G 77 belonging to the company to his own use . Tho evidence was voluminous ; but after hearing it the Lord Mayor expressed his opinion that no fraud was intended , and dismissed the case . An appeal was made to the Lord Mayor to admit Mr . Wilkinson

to bail on the charge for which he was committed to trial . His lordship , however , resolutely declined to accede to the application . An inquest has been held on the body of Sylvia Bennett , the young girl who was Jburnt to death on the 22 nd ult ., in Sloane-street , and whose case was so graphically described by a surgeon . That surgeon was Mr . Ellis , of G 3 , Sloanestreet . Ho gave evidence before the Coroner . The jury

returned a verdict of accidental death . There appears to be good reason to believe that Stephens has succeeded in eluding the vigilance of the authorities , and is now once more on Irish soil . The Atlantic telegraph apprises us of his departure from the United States , and it is scarcely likely that this fact ivould be made public hy his brother

conspirators until he had made good his landing in Ireland . The impression that the Head Centre has arrived is said to prevail in Fenian circles in Liverpool . A deputation from the Trades ' Reform Demonstration Committee waited upon Mr . Walpole , to ask that a thousand ivorking men might be sworn iu as special constables to preserve order on the occasion of the

demonstration on Monday next . It was pointed out that this became necessary in consequence of the r ' efusal of Sir Richard Mayneto allow the police to assist the procession in its progress to the place of meeting . Mr . AValpole said that to justify the swearing-in of special constables it must he sworn that riot was apprehended . He believed the deputation did not expect there

would be a riot . Mr . G . Potter assured him they did not , but urged that some assistance ought to be given to prevent the roughs who might gather from disturbing the orderly proceedings of the ivorking men . Sir Richard JMayno was present at the interview , and after some discussion Mr . Walpole and he promised that the police should render the working men every assistanco in keeping order . —¦—It is stated that A

ice-Chancellor ICindersley lias resigned , and that Air . Malins , Q . C , has been appointed to the office .- In the Court of Exchequer a ease—tho Crown v . Dudman—WAS-tried . Mr . Dndman , who is a blacksmith at Dulwich , had been assessed by the Incometax Commissioners on his alleged income , and the amount he was required to pay was £ S . He denied that his income was £ 100 , ancl therefore refused to pay the £ 5 . He barricaded his house ,

and threatened to assault any officers who might eome to enforce a distress warrant . Under these circumstances the Inland Revenue authorities brought the action against him . Baron Martin , who tried the case , said he thought the action was an unnecessary proceeding , and the jury , in finding against the defendant , expressed an opinion that the proceedings against

him were very harsh . In the Court of Queen's Bench the case of Hunter v . Sharpe came on for hearing . It was an action for libel brought by Dr . Hunter ( who , it will be remembered , was tried and acquitted ou a charge of assaulting a Mrs . Merrick ) , against the Pall Mall Gazette . At the time when the Merrick case ivas before the public the Pall Mall Gazette

made some comments upon it , and upon the malpractices of quacks , which Dr . Hunter considers did him harm . Hence the action . The day was entirely taken up by the opening speech of counsel and the exaaiination and cross-examination of the plaintiff . A rather serious charge was brought against the authorities of the Great Northern Rail ivay , at an inquiry which

Dr . Lankestev opened on the 27 th ult ., respecting the death of a coal porter on that line . Deceased was getting into what is called a coal "bay , " which is a reservoir for coals sunk between the rails upon which the trucks run , and into which coals are shot from the trucks , when some trucks which had been standing close by suddenly moved on his arm and crushed it so that it had to bo amputated from the shoulder , and death resulted . It was stated in evidence that a man ' s life was in clanger in