The Week.

presentment was signed , suggesting the propriety of an inspector being appointed by government for the purpose of periodically examining all buildings used for public sseoiblages . A soldier named Watts , of the 1 st battalion of Scots F ' usilier Guards , while doing duty as sentinel ac the Bank of England , on Saturday , attempted to shoot himself with his musket . The man had earned honourable distinction in the Crimean war . A court martial will be held On Wednesday evening two tradesmen in the Ilampstead-roaclneighbours

, , named Burrows and . Piewa , disagreed over their liquor at a tavein , ancl left the house quarrelling . It appears that they continued quarrelling- , aud Mr . Plows followed Mr , Burrows into his shop . In a few minutes their altercation became very violent , aud being incensed at some observation ivhich Burrows had made , struck him a blow . Burrows fell forward , and his forehead coming in contact with a chest of drawers , ho received such injury as caused instant death . At tbe Marylebone police court on ThursdayMr . Plews was examined on the charge of

, having occasioned the death of Mr . Burrows . The evidence tended to show that he acted under some provocation , and that it WKS impossible for him to see ivhat Avould be the fatal result of the blow . He was remanded . At Sheffield , on Wednesday night , a labouring man named AVilliam Wilson was going home very late , ivhen three or four men , who came out a passage opposite the Postoffice , which is known as the Hartbhead , ran at him , and one of them plunged a knife , or some other pointed instrument , into his abdomen . The men

immediately ran away . From the effects of the stab the man fell to the ground , and lay totally incapable of moving . He retained consciousness , and called out to the best of his ability for assistance . Two or three persons who were passing that way took him to the infirmary , where he expired , but not until he had given the particulars of his assasination to the eurgeons . Mr . Cremer , the proprietor of the German Fair , has performed a very humane act . He has prosecuted two girls named Smith , in his employ , for robbing him to a serious amount , but being anxious to give them another opportunity to recover their

lost position , he has withdrawn from the prosecution , and they havo been Splaced in a reformatory institution , into which none of the convicted criminal class are admitted . The obnoxious paper duty again turned up in the Court of Exchequer on Thursday . Mr . Barry , a paper-maker at Brompton , makes a species of parchment from bides and skin , and as the Board of Inland Revenue contended that this was paper , and therefore subject to the higher duly , they brought an action against him , which can e on for trial on Thursday . The arguments on both sides having been heardthe court took time to consider its

, deeish » n . Ac theAVeatminster police court , on Thursday , two private soldiers , belonging to the Grenadier Guards , were charged with having seriously assaulted two labouring men with their belts . AA ' e » ± re glad to find that the magistrate committed the prisoners for trial . AC Che Thames police court , a recruiting sergeant aud a prostitute were committed for trial on a charge of having stolen the sum of three pounds from a recruit , the tivo prisoners acting in concert for the purpose of leading their victim into debauchery that they might accomplish

their object . The appeal case of Nicoll re the British Bank has bean disposed of by the Court of Chancery . The Lord Chancellor and the Lords Justices were of opinion that Mr . Nicoll was not relieved from his liability as a shareholder on the ground of misrepresentations made to him of the state of the affairs , of tho bank before he purchased shares . But their lordships were of opinion that Mr . Nicoll was entitled to be struck off the list of contributaries . They dismissed the appeal , with costs . The liberal members of Parliament belonging to the

sister isle have issued a declaration in which they affirm that life and property are as secure , that justice is as effectually administered , in Ireland as in England ; they deprecate coercive measures , consider secret or exclusive political societies , which means the Orange society as well as the Phcenix clubs , or Ribbon lodges , dangerous to the peace ; and express their conviction that the law of landlord and tenant requires immediate and material amendment . Lord Eglintoun held his first levee for the season on Wednesday afternoon . The attendance , though respectable , was not as numerous as it was expected to be , the falling off , perhaps , being aseribable to the inclement state of the weather iu