The Week.

A murder , attended by circumstances of a most barbarous character , has been committed in Ireland . A solicitor named M'Crossan , apparently well known in Tyrone , was advising with the Sheriff about executing a distress warrant at the house of a man named M'Longhlin , at Omagh . AVhile Mr . M'Crossan was conversing with the Sheriff anel his officers , a few feet from M'Loughlin's house , a barbed iron rod was pushed out of one

of the windows , and plunged into Mr . M'Crossan ' s throat . He lingered for a clay or two , when he died . M'Longhlin is now in custody . It is now ascertained that 150 persons were more or less injured in the course of the Belfast riots . Nine deaths have already taken place , of whom five were Protestants , and four Roman Catholics . It argues strongly for tlie still

heated state of the popular feeling when we find that in every case the coroner ' s juries return open verdicts . An inquest on tbe body of a child that was said to have been starved to death by the neglect of its father , the Rev . Mr . AA ' ehb , has been held . The evidence bore out the statement that Mr . Webb left four children—¦ the eldest being only eleven years of

age—for a whole month without any one to take charge of them , and with only £ 112 * . to supply them with food . The evidence as to fche cruelty of Mr . Wehb to the children while he was with them was conflicting . The jury returned a verdict that the death of the child was caused by neglect , and that the conduct of the father was highly censurable . — - —An inquest was held on

AVednesday in Befchnai-green , on the body of George Holmes , an old man , who had died suddenly . The evidence was to tho effect that the deceased was unable to earn enough to keep him , and that , in fact , his death was hastened by absolute want . Some of the details of what occurred previous to his dying were of a most interesting character . The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the facts stated . The Mayor of AA oodstock

died suddenly m the corporation pew of the parish church on Sunday last while Divine service was proceeding . He arrived afc church apparently in his usual health , but fell back in his seat while the second lesson was being read . Medical assistance was procured , bufc he was dead . On Saturday the last sentence of the law was executed at Gloucester ' , on Lewis Gongh , the man who was convicted of the murder of the blind old woman

Curthoys , who , blind as she was , appears to have led a vicious life , and to have inspired Gongh with a feeling of jealousy that led to murder . The convict was very penitent , and acknowledged tho justice of his sentence . There was a large crowd present , but their behaviour throughout was orderly . At an early hour on Wednesday week , a serious collision

occurred near the Nore , between two fine screw steamers , the Amity and tlie John FenwicJc . The Amity was sei-iously damaged , and it was deemed necessary to run her on an adjoining sand bank . While the captain and some of the crew were in the cabin arranging and securing the ship ' s papers , tho vessel slid off tho sands into deep water . All the hands escaped into tlie

rigging except the captain , who was drowned before he could reach the deck . The Straits Times reports the seizure of an English vessel by Chinese pirates , the murder of her officers , and her being set on fire . Some ofthe crew wore picked up by another vessel . It is added that many ships which are never heard of , and are supposed to have foundered at sea , may probably have

perished in this more terrible manner . A preliminary trial of the Scorpion , one of the Birkenhead rams , was made at Liverpool , by tho builders , Messrs . Laird and Co . Tho ship averaged a speed of 12-57 knots per hour . She answered her helm readily , and the trial was considered highly satisfactory . One of the most painful cases , amongst the many painful cases , of misery and death , resulting from destitution in the metropolis , was investigated by a coroner ' s jury on Wednesday , in the

east end of London . A family—tho chief of which , Mr . Jeffreys had formerly been in a large way of business as a paper manufacturer—had by a reverse of fortune become reduced to great poverty . Determined to battle bravely with their altered circumstances they went on from clay to day , working and pinching , endeavouring by every honest means to increase their income anel reduce their expenditure . Iu this desperate struggle

the two young ladies of the family took a prominent part , working day and night for a slopseller , who paid them " 2 s . a dozen for making flannel shirts , and for blue aucl white ones they got 2 s . 6 d . a dozen ! " Incessant work , little food , and the bare boards to sleep upon , at length produced their effects , and one Jiy one tho members of this unfortunate family were stricken

down by illness , thus being deprived of the means of procuring the wretched subsistence which had hitherto enabled them to keep body and soul together . One of fche girls died from sheer starvation—" effusion of serum" is , we believe , the poetical name—refusing to the last to allow any medical man to see her , because he must at the same time discover nil fche

wretchedness and misery of the family . The other girl lay stretched out on the floor in a dying condition when the coronet's jury visited tire place , and refused to tlie last fco be handed over to the guardianship of the workhouse authorities . The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the evidence , and the case is officially disposed of—afc least until fche services of tlie jury

are again required to decide upon the cause of death of the other sister , who yet lives . FOBEIGN INTELLIGENCE . —Prince Humbert of Italy arrived afc the Palais Royal on Saturday as anticipated . On Sunday he was to have visited St . Cloud . The Emperor of tho French left Paris for the Camp afc Chalons on Monday . His Majesty was accompanied by Prince Humbert of Italy , the Prince

Imperial , and Prince Napoleon . The stay of the Imperial anel Royal visitors will be necessarily a brief one , as the camp is to be broken up early in September , on the departure of Marshal Maemahon to take into his hands the conduct of affairs in Algeria . In a speech made afc St . Etienne last week , M . De Persiguy proposed fche health of Napoleon III . " as the founder of liberty in France , " and afc fche same time declared that

freedom of the press could nofc be advantageous until " a new , vigorous , and independent political generation should arise to replace the minds enervated by revolutions " ' —or , in other words , that so long as we live and fche Emperor reigns the press will never he free in France . The French Minister of Agriculture and Commerce , M . Behic , has been entertained at a

banquet by the principal merchants of Marseilles , and in the course of his address shadowed out further Customs reforms based upon the financial interests of the country only . He also promised the establishment of a new code of commercial legislation anel an extension of the right of association . Tho two men , Labour and Audouy , charged with the wholesale

murder of tbe inhabitants of the Chateau de B-. iiHa . rd , anil the subsequent robbery of the place , have been found guilty by the French tribunal before whom they were tried . Tlie former was sentenced to death , and the latter to hard labour for life . On Tuesday the King of Italy officially received the envoy of the Emperor of Mexico afc Turin . The usual compliments were

passed , and the best good wishes mutually expressed . According to official advices received at Paris from Mexico , things were in a most satisfactory condition there afc the commencement of last month . Several expeditions for the purpose of driving the Juarists from points still held by them were in preparation . A considerable land force , sustained by a naval squaclron , was to proceed to Matamoras with the view of establishing the Imperial authority on a strong basis there . Letters