The Week.

crash that ensued . Hundreds of persons at that period of the day were standing about the locks , and seven bystanders were wounded more or less ; the master of the steamboat is among the dead ; he has left a wife and a large family . -On Saturday morning , between two and three o'clock , a sad calamity occurred , in which six persons lost their lives by fire . The scene of this awful event was in the premises of Mr . John Rufus Reeves , confectioner , Great James-street , Paddington . Not long after the fire was discoveredand before any effectual assistance could be

ren-, dered , the interior of the building fell in , burying in its ruins those who had failed to make good their escape . The unfortunate sufferers were Mr . Reeves , with four of his children , and the nurse . Several persons also were seriously injured by falling , and others were severely burned . Another arrest has been made in County Kerry , of a man , a master of a national school , on the charge of being a member of the Phoenix conspiracy ; and at the * AVostmeath assizes , the jury have convicted a prisoner of having the passwords of au illegal secret society in his possession . The

prisoner had been to America , and he said | he brought the passwords from the States . At Chatham , Lieutenant Baillie , of the East India Engineers , has been detected in robbing his brother officers of money and valuables . Suspicion at first rested upon servants ; but a watch being set , all doubt was removed as to the identity of the culprit . Ho was placed under arrest , but contrived to escape , and has not since been heard of . He is connected , we are told , with families of wealth and respectability . At

Pemberton colliery , near Sunderland , resides a pitman named Hodgson . To Margaret , the daughter of this man , a miner named Binning was paying his addresses . On Monday night he visited Hodgson ' s residence , and had an interview with Margaret . He accused her of walking with another young man . She had told him that she would have nothing to do with him ( Binning ) , and he replied that lie would take care that she should have nothing to do with any one else , and drawing a pistol , shot her in the head aud ran off . The girl lies in a very dangerous state . Binning has not been heard of since , and it is feared has destroyed himself .-

The " nursing " system pursued by London General Omnibus Company , with regard to any other omnibus that dares to ply on the roads which they have appropriated to their own use , has received a cheek at last . Mr . Hughes , who established some exceedingly well appointed omnibuses between Islington and Brompton , was called upon by Mr . Macuamara , the manager of the General Omnibus Company , to surrender his plant and stock at then- valuation , and to give up driving on "their " roads . Declining to do so , he was told that he should be " twoed , " that is to say , " nursed" at the company ' s expense . By keeping one omnibus continuallbefore

, y Hughes ' s and another always behind , his passengers were taken from him , and he was of course ruined in a short time . He brought au action against the company in tho court of common pleas , and was awarded compensation in damages to tho amount of four hundred pounds . The ease of Gardner v . Godfrey occupied the whole of Saturday , Monday , Tuesday , and AA ednesday , last week . The plaintiff keeps a public house in AVhitechapel , and the defendant is a physician . In the year 1857 Mrs . Gardner was dying of consumption , and Mr . Godfrey attended her

during her illness , which resulted in death . It was alleged that he abused the confidence reposed in him as a medical attendant , and that the ruin of the plaintiff ' s daughter was to be attributed to him . The plaintiff now sought to recover damages for the alleged seduction of his daughter . Mr . Montague Chambers , in an eloquent and impassioned address to tho jury , urged that Dr . Godfrey was tho victim of a foul conspiracy , and pledged himself to prove that he was as pure as a man could bo . The learned judge having summed up the case with great care and excessive feelingthe jury retiredand after a short absence returned a vet-diet for the

, , defendant . The proceedings at the meeting of Venezuelan bondholders , held on AVednesday , resulted in the adoption of the amended terms obtained from the A enezuelan Minister , through the initiative assumed by a number of bondholders On Thursday the ceremony of consecrating Dr . Hills , late incumbent of Great Yarmouth , to the bishopric of British Columbia , took place in AA estminster Abbey , in the presence of a large number of bishops , clergy , and former parishioners of the new prelate . ——On AVednesday was announced the decease of Mr . Abel Smith , the head of the banking firrii of Smith , Payne , and Co . Mr . Smith was in parliament