The Week.

jewellery , valued at £ 100 . Then .- conduct in Mr . Wells ' s shop awakened his suspicions , ancl after they had left the shop he discovered thafc the jewellery mentioned had been taken away . The prisoners were apprehended in London , and part of fche property found upon them . It was objected for the woman that she was the wife of Lewis Levi , and not his sister as alleged . The two male prisoners were found guilty , and the female was acquitted , Jacob Levi and Rosa Levi was then tried on

another indictment , when Jacob was convicted , and Rosa was acquitted . The judge said thev were systematic plunderers , and condemned Jacob Levi to two years' hard labour on fche first indictment , and one year on the second ; and Lewis was sentenced to two years' hard labour . The grand jury returned a true bill against Thomas Smethurst for bigamy . Henry Leach surrendered to take his trial on a charge of stealing a cheque for . £ 30 , tho property of his master . The oircum--stauces of the case were somewhat peculiarancl a great deal of evidence

, was laid before the jury . The learned recorder summed up on the whole case , aud the jury returned a verdict of guilty , but recommended the prisoner to mercy on account of his youth . As another indictment was to be taken against him , the recorder postponed passing sentence upon him for the present . Thomas Brooks was charged with forging an order for tho delivery of a cheque book , and was also charged with uttering a forged cheque for £ 5 Ss . He was found guilty on both charges . It was stated that twenty-three cheques had been taken from

the cheque book , ancl made use of . The pirisoner had been convicted before of obtaining a cheque book by forgery . Tbe Recorder said it was necessary to pass a severe sentence , and condemned the prisoner to ten years' penal servitude . On Monday afternoon a woman named Ellen Luney , living at St . Helen ' s , was committed for trial on a coroner ' s warrant , charged with the wilful murder of John Canary , a labourer . The murderess it seems hacl struck her unfortunate victim on the head with a spade . On Monclay niht the steamer Faglefrom Glasgow to

g , Londonderry , with eighty passengers on board , came in collision with a sailing vessel off the island of Arran . The steamer went down about ten minutes after , and forty of the unfortunate passengers are believed to be drowned ; 200 sheep that wore on board were also lost . Ou Tuesday evening a frightful accident occurred at the BeddinghamGate crossing of the London and South AVestern Railway , about two miles from Lewes .

Through an error of one kind or another a four-wheeled waggon with two men was allowed to go upon die line just as tbe express train was approaching ; the consequence was that both the unfortunate men were killed , as well as the horse , the waggon being shivered to splinters . At fche Central Criminal Court on Wednesday , an application was made for the postponement of the trial of Hughes , tho absconding solicitor , until next session , which was granted . The trial of Sarah Jane AViggins , charged with the wilful murder of James AA'hite , was then

proceeded with . The crime was committed under circumstances of peculiar atrocity , the prisoner having tied tbo child ( aged three and a half years ) to a bedstead at night , with bis bands bound behind bis back , and his head downward , ? , and there left him , so that fie died the next morning . Several witnesses were examined , and the jury found the prisoner guilty . She was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude . Thomas Smethurst was then charged with bigamy ; he had been previously put to the bar ancl pleaded not guilty . The evidence proved

the fact of both marriages having taken place , and the prisoner was found guilty . The learned judge , after careful consideration , sentenced him to tho very severe sentence of one year ' s imprisonment . At the Court of Bankruptcy , assignees have been chosen to the estate of Thomas Pratt , a farrier , in Dean-strcefc , Soho , and George-street Povtman-square . This bankrupt was also lessee of the Soho Theatre , aud in this capacity he was known as H . S . Mowbray . An interesting discussion took place respecting the debt of the petitioning creditor , who was the bankrupt ' s foreman , and the question of proof was adjourned for further investigation . The transactions in the funds yesterday were

again at advanced prices , the closing quotation for Consols , for money being 90 | - to f , and for the account 96 J to -J . Foreign stocks ancl railway shares also presented an additional improvement , Mexican , Turkish , and Russian participating in the movement . English and French shares improved , and transactions forward took place to a considerable extent . INDIA ; AND COLONIES . —Bj' the overland mail we have advices and papers from Calcutta to the 22 nd October , and from Hong Kong to the 12 th October . The news is of very little importance . The Governor

General is proceeding through the country with an armed force of artillery , cavalry , and infantry of immense size , larger they say than Sir H . Rose had at Jhansi . At such a time , when the finances of the country are in so frightful a state , it is really too bad to waste so great a mass of money upon a progress of this Sort , a progress that sounds very grand , but one which cannot possibly be worth one tithe of the money which must be expended upon it . The expense will be £ 10 , 000 sterling

a month . A'arious rumours are afloat relative to tbe rebels in Nepaul . One report is thafc the Nana is dead , another that he has joined his Zenana , but since then we have been told that there was a consultation in the Nairn ' s camp on tlie llih instant , and the several leaders agreed to unite their forces and place them under the Nana ' s orders . The ivhole rebel force is estimated at 14 , 500 men . The Fed Jacket has arrived from Melbourne with 40 , 000 ounces of gold . She left Melbourne on the 10 th of September . The Fed Jaded called on the voyage home at Pcrnambuco , from which port she brings intelligence of the total loss of the government emigrant ship John and Lucy , bound from Liverpool With passengers to the Cape of Good Hope . The ill fated ship left

Liverpool about the latter end of July , and was lost at Garous previous to the 29 th of October . The crew and emigrants were all saved , and conveyed to Pernambueo , from whence they will be forwarded to the Cape . COMMERCIAL ; AND PUBLIC COMPANIES . —The weekly reports of the state of trade iu the manufacturing districts speak of satisfactory progress , although the operations have not been very extensive . In some

of the districts the export orders are not of an encouraging character but it is still remarked tbat the home trade continues in a thriving condition . This is particularly the case afc Birmingham , and at Bradford the same symptoms are apparent . The advices from Manchester seem , on the ivhole , satisfactory , though transactions are not so numerous as a month or six weeks back . At Norwich most of the manufacturing businesses remain in a good situation , and labour is not altogether abundant . In the Sheffield trade the transactions have been moderately active , but it is now expected that there will be some decline in consequence of the advanced season . The iron trade has been flat at AVoIverhampton , but a fair amount of business has been concluded in hardware articles for home use . The accounts from tbe Irish towns

present no serious change . The traffic returns of the railways in the United Kingdom for the week ending the 19 th November , amounted to £ 474 , 630 , and for the corresponding week of last year to £ 427 , 420 , showing an increase of , £ 47 , 210 . The gross receipts of the eight railways having their termini in the metropolis , amounted to £ 208 , 333 , ancl for the corresponding week of last year to £ 187 , 517 , showing an increase of £ 20 , 817 . The gross receipts on tbe other lines in the United Kingdom amounted to £ 266 , 297 , and for the corresponding week of last year to

£ 239 , 903 , showing an increase of £ 26 , 394 , which , added to the increase on the metropolitan lines , makes a total increase £ 47 , 210 , as compared with the corresponding week of 1858 . The question of the fusion of the South Eastern and the London , Chatham , and . Dover Companies , continues to excite great interest . A meeting took place on AA ' ednesday last between committees of directors of the London , Chatham , ancl Dover , and the South Eastern Companies , specially appointed for the purpose by the respective boards to consider the propriety of a fusion between

the two undertakings . The question ivas then thoroughly discussed in all its bearings , ancl the necessity of some arrangement being arrived at was admitted on both sides . It is very desirable that these negotiations should be followed up , and that , for the interests of all parties , they should have a successful result . The line of the London , Chatham , and Dover Company is at this present moment very nearly completed , and the period has arrived when large sums will have to be expended on stations , rolling stock sidings , workshops , and other costly works , which would not be required should an amicable arrangement bo effected .

Public Amusements.

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS .

DRURY LANE THEATRE . —The short season of promenade concerts has been begun with spirit under the generalship of Mr . Manns of the Crystal Palace . The house has been well attended ; the selection of music showed excellent taste and has been highly appreciated . AA ' e must not omit to notice Bro . Strange ' s successful management of the refreshment department , and there our crowded columns compel ns to stop for this week . LYCEUM THEATRE . —The opening night of the season on Monday last

was honoured by an overflowing house , and the taste and spirit of tho fair lessee were enthusiastically appreciated ancl applauded by an audience of old friends , who rejoiced to see Madame Celeste once more restored to the London boards . The new piece " Paris and Pleasure , " continues to attract as well as on the first evening , but we must defer particulars till our next .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

" E . I . O . "—The law against the possession of rituals is to be found in the words of the entered apprentices' obligation , " BETA" declined with thanks . " R . A . "—AA ' e will speak to you next year . " P . Z . "—AA'e never made such a nonsensical assertion .

" MASONRY IN LIVERPOOL . "—If Bro . G . B . B . will kindly furnish particulars to P . M . Bro . C . J . B ., Masonic Temple , Liverpool , his information will be appreciated and attended to . "C . S . "—The promised communication will be thankfully received . "AA' . H . "—AVe never give up the names of our correspondents . " ABEL" will oblige us by informing us upon what authority he speaks , before we reply to the quesfciou ,