The Week.

Lefroy and Recorder Shaw . Soon after his elevation it was understood that , subject to the restraints imposed by his judicial position , he become a Conservative . His death was caused by bronchitis . The Marquis of Aberdeen has proposed to pay £ 10 , 000 into the funds of the notorious Bank of Deposit , now heinf wound up , in order to put a stop to litigation so far as he

is concerned . He has in this acted very properly , and the creditors' representatives , as well as the depositors , have consented to accept this settlement of his case . Proceedings will , however , still go on against Lord Keane and the other directors unless they are put a stop to in a similar manner . -At last there is a prospect of the Underground Railway being opened

for the use of the public . Another official inspection of tho line was made on Saturday , and the arrangements are now so nearly complete that it is expected the line will be open to the public on Monday next , the 5 th of January . The German street-band nuisance has been the subject of a charge at the Marlboi'ough-steet Police-court this week . It seems there

was a band of eight or ten noise-makers—you do not hea r music in the streets—who assembled and " played" to tho annoyance of a lady who is ill .. They would not move away when requested , and one of them had to answer the charge . His counsel , in arguing the case , called attention to a clause in the Act , to the effect that " the playing must be in presence of

a police-constable" hut Mr . Tyrwhitt , legally compelled to dismiss the charge , said that these roving bands might collect together and levy black mail . The law , in fact , is in an unsatisfactory state . A few days ago a charge of disorderly conduct was preferred by a policeman , at . the Westminster police-court , against a Mrs . Kendal and a Mrs . Morris . The evidence of the policeman was supported hy a brother officer . For the defence it was alleged that the policeman's statements

were wholly untrue , and that in fact they had insulted the defendants . Witnesses were called in support of this defence , and after a remand others were called who also made similar statements . The result was that the case was dismissed , the the magistrate expressing his opinion that the policemen had committed perjury . On Wednesday an . application was made by Superintendent Gibbs to the magistrate at Westminster

Police-court , for a summons against one of the witnesses for the defence , on the ground that she had committed perjury . Mr . Gibbs stated that inquiries had been made , the result of which was that in the opinion of the police authorities the witnesses for the defence had stated what was not true . The magistrate declined to grant the summons . He said he had read the

report of the inquiries , and it had not altered his opinion as to the evidence given by the police . A curious case has been heard at the Birmingham Police-court . A game dealer was charged with having expasedfor sale five hares which were unfit for human food . Dr . Hill , the borough analyst , declared that they were unwholesome , and therefore not fit to be eaten . He

was asked to taste some jugged hare which was brought into court , and pronouueed it to be good , whereupon it came out that it was made with one of the hares which had been condemned as unfit for food . He then declared that it was uuwholesome . For the defence , witnesses in abundance were called to prove that hares never were good until they stank ,

and that fire wholly destroyed the effects of decomposition . The magistrate , a Mr . Lloyd , could not resist the testimony . He had , however , ordered the hares to be destroyed , and in giving his decision said he should not stultify himself by dismissing the case , but he should not fine the defendant . ——One of the most melancholy of the catastrophes caused by the late gale is the loss of the Lifeguard , passenger steam boat bet , veen London and Newcastle-upon-Tyne . She left the Tyue according to her

advertised hour of sailing on Saturday , and was due at Irongate Wharf , London , on Monday ; but she has not made her appearance , nor has she been seen by any of the numerous craft by which that part of our coast is traversed . Some boxes which were known to have been on board of her have been picked up , and altogether there is no doubt of her sad fate . It is supposed she foundered at sea , and except the waifs already referred

to there is no vestige ol her left to tell tho tale . She had thirty-two passengers on board and a crew of twenty-one . Another most distressing calamity is the loss of a small " fleet " of fishing boats belonging to Ness , in the island of Lewis . Some forty men , or about one-third of the entire adult male population of the village , have been drowned , and it is feared that

other remote fishing stations have , like Ness , suffered to a most serious extent . A sad accident occurred at Golcar , near Huddersfiehl , mi Christmas-day . The Rev . J . E . Downing , incumbent of Golcar , and his family , were driving in two carriages to the house of a friend . As the first carriage ,- which contained Mr . Downing aud his servant , approached a part of the road

which is carried along a steep precipice , the horse dashed forward , and the rev . gentleman and his servant were thrown out . The fall of the latter was broken by a projection , but Mr . Downing was less fortunate , and fell to the bottom of the precipice . The rev . gentleman , who was taken up in a state of insensibility , died the same eveuiug . A very remarkable robbery has been

committed on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway . On Wednesday week a large sum of money was despatched from Manchester for the payment of the wnges of the company's servants in Yorkshire . The money intended for the various stations was placed in separate boxes , and it appears that the guard , on reaching North Dean , discovered that three of these boxes , containing together upwards of £ 1000 , wore missing-. How or

oy whom this audacious robbery was committed remains for the present a mystery , bat it is scarcely necessary to say that the affair is being strictly investigated by the police . The inquest ou the body of tho ship's steward , who died in the Channel on hoard the Martha Pope , was resumed on Wednesday . One of the sailors , a man of colour , was examined , whose evidence was rather favourable to the captain ; but while he stated that the

deceased was a bad sailor and a bad cook , he admitted that the letters "V . G .. " entered opposite the decensed ' s name , meant " very good . " The surgical evidence was to the effeetthat the internal appearances of the body might cousort with death from disease , but that the wounds must have been produced hy violence , and would accelerate the death which they might not

themselves have caused . The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against the captain , the mate , and the boatswain of the ship , and the coroner committed tliom for trial . —¦—The inquest on the bodies of six children who were burned to death by a fire in Soho has been opened . The bodies were identified by their uncle ; and the coroner stated that as the inquiry was

likely to be a long and important one he would not carry the case farther that day . It was stated in the court that four of the poor children were educated at the parochial school on Battersea-common , but had come home to spend the Christmas holidays with their parents . There has been another fatal fire . A poor old lady living in Church-street , Greenwich , had .

her dress accidentally ignited , and the result was that she has been burnt to death . The Town-hall of Chester was destroyed by a fire which broke out in the building on Tuesday night . The Austrian seaman , Petrina , who was recently sentenced to death for murder on the high seas , was executed at Winchester on Tuesday . Three arches of the London , Chatham , and Dover Railway , near to the Clapharn station , fell on Wednesday morning . The traffic to the Elephant and Castle is temporarily