The Week.

long . -The now notorious case of the Polish bonds has been mentioned in the Court of Vice-Chancellor Stuart . Mr . Malins asked that the motion might be allowed to stand over till the hearing of the cause . His lordship , after hearing Mr . Bacon ' s objection to this , said that he was obliged to allow the application , but Mr . Bacon could give Mr . Malins notice that unless he brought on his motion next term he might move that it be

taken as an abandoned motion . In Banco , before three justices of the Queen ' s Bench , came , last week , the appeal from the keeper of the refreshment-rooms at the Victoria Station against the conviction of Mr . Arnold at the Westminster Court for serving with refreshment , in prohibited hours , persons who had already taken their tickets for a journey on the railway " . The judges decided that when a man has taken his ticket he has become a traveller ; and Mr . Justice Crompton thought a

man might be considered a traveller even before ho took his ticket . The intention , , said Mr . Justice Mellor , was to prevent a man from going and sitting drinking in a public-house . This liberal interpretation of the statute will , it may be supposed , diminish the number of these annoying case 3 . The judges nearly all lean to the opinion that a man leaving his house with the intent of making a journey is a traveller the moment he is outside his own door . This seems to throw the bona fides

of the matter on the customer rather than on the publican . —¦—A curious case was heard before the Preston magistrates last week . A beerhouse keeper , named Blundell , had been convicted of selling beer during the prohibited hours on Sunday , the 9 th ult . The principal witnesses against him were two men to whom he had supplied the liquor , and yesterday these men were charged , under what is known as Jervis's Act , with having

aided and abetted Blundell in his infringement of the statute . The bench found the case proved , and a nominal penalty was inflicted , —their worships , however , warning Sunday topers that they must not in future expect to get off so easily if caught " aiding and abetting" in offences of this description . An action for breach of promise of marriage was some time since before the Court of Queen's Bench , when the defendant , Mr . Ridley , an engineer at Leeds , did not appear , and judgment was given against him in default . The case came on on Monday before the Sheriffs' Court for assessment of damages , when the

counsel for the plaintiff , Mr . Montague Williams , said that his client , a young girl of sixteen , named Lewis , had been seduced under the promise , and that the defendant was a married man with a family . No defence was offered , and the jury awarded damages to the extent of £ 250 . Deplorable accounts of the loss of life , caused by the gale of last week , have reached us from the east coast . The Aberdeen and London steamer Stanley was driven ashore at Tynemouth , and scenes of the

most painful character were witnessed . Owing to the heavy sea which was running at the time , it was found impossible to communicate with the stranded vessel by means of the lifeboats , and yesterday morning , when the rocket apparatus was brought fairly into play , it was ascertained that out of fifteen female passengers only two survived , while six male passengers had perished . Several of the crew met a similar fate , and four lifeboat men were drowned in an effort

to reach the ship . A schooner and a brig were wrecked at the same place , and altogether , so far as is at present known , thirty-four lives have been lost at the mouth of the Tyne . From the Norfolk coast several fatal casualties are also reported . A screw collier foundered on the voyage from Sunderland to London , and it is feared that all on board , with the exception of one seaman , were drowned . The Dundee and Newcastle steamer Dalhousie was lost during the gale at the mouth of

tho Tay , with , there is too much reason to believe , the whole of her passengers and crew . A melancholy occurrence is reported from Aberdeen . A number of persons were congregated at the end of the pier , at the mouth of the Dee , when a huge wave rolled in and swept away a man and two boys . After an unequal struggle of live months , during which they and their families must have suffered many privations , the

colliers of South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire have found themselves compelled to submit to their masters' terms . The great majority of the men " went in" some time ago , leaving the colliers of the Westbromwich and Oklbury districts to stand out as a forlorn hope . This strategy bus failed , and the Westbromwich and Oklbury pitmen have decided to resume work . A vagrant named Croft or Smith has been charged before the county magistrates at Maidenhead with tho murder of an old woman at Sunninghill Park , Berks . Ho had been in prison for a month for vagrancy , and on the expiration of

that sentence he was arrested on this graver accusation The carrier who discovered the body of the murdered woman , the surgeon called in , and two men who saw the prisoner in the neighbourhood , gave evidence ; and , on the application of the chief constable of the county , the prisoner was remanded . At present the evidence does not seem remarkably conclusive . Two men charged with murdering a farm

labourer named Fisher , near Orpington , in Kent , have been brought before the magistrates at Bromley , on remand , and committed on a charge of wilful murder at the next Maidstone assizes . The prisoners , Staples aud Turner , before their committal , made a statement to the effect that they found the man lying in the road , and only helped him up as the policeman approached . They will have an opportunity of urging this view of the matter when the assizes come on . AVe hear from

Leicester of an atrocious double murder committed on Saturday morning at Syston , a village about four miles from that place . The victims are a woman named Baum , and her infant daughter . The alleged murderer is tho husband and father , who after the deed attempted suicide . The prisoner was taken before the magistrate in the course of the day , and was remanded . A shocking case of alleged murder took place in a jeweller's workshop , Clerkenwell ,

on Wednesday week . Two young men were working on the premises till a late hour , when some of the neighbours heard cries of " Murder , " and groans proceeding from the place . On looking to ascertain the cause they saw a young man named Jackson make his escape from the premises over a wall , and they found a lad named Roberts weltering in blood , with his head and face severely beaten . He was taken to the hospital , where he soon afterwards died , and Jackson was taken into

custody . There was no one present but the deceased and his assailant , and the case is therefore involved in some obscurity . The blows were inflicted with a broom-handle . It is not known whether Jackson meant to commit murder ; and beyond the fact that he was £ 8 or £ 10 in debt to Roberts no motive has been suggested for his making the attack at all . The prisoner was examined before the magistrate aud remanded . A destructive fire broke out on Friday night , and continued burning until Monday , on the premises of Messrs . Barry ,

wharfingers and saltpetre merchants , Dockhead , Bermondsey . On Saturday evening a wall fell , owing to the pressure caused by the effect of steam and water upon the jute stored within , but the firemen luckily escaped . The damage is estimated at nearly a quarter of a million . The quack doctor , Dr . Henery , and his companion were on Friday placed at the bar of the Central Criminal Court , charged with conspiring to extort money from a patient . They were acquitted on a technical

point , hut immediately put on their trial again for publishing a gross libel , when they were each found guilty , and sentenced to two years' hard labour , the utmost puuishment the law allows for the offence . On Saturday , the man Kohl , charged with the murder of Theodore Christian Fuhrhop , was again brought before the Ilford magistrates , when some additional evidence was given , and the prisoner was fully committed for trial at the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court . The Dublin

Exhibition was the scene of a disgraceful disturbance on Monday evening , originated by certain officers of the 78 th Highlanders , who , it is to be presumed , laid aside their reputed character of " gentlemen" for the nonee . At the close of a lecture by the Lord Mayor , several of these persons rudely and violently attempted to force their way through a dense crowd to the platform . Their efforts ended in a formidable row ; chairs were seized unci flourished over the heads of terrified ladiesand a state of

in-, tense excitement and uproar prevailed . Four of the officers were brought before the magistrates , but the Exhibition authorities declined to prosecute , as an apology was offered . A case of extortion by a policeman was brought before Mr . Norton , at Lambeth , on Monday . The complainant was a railway porter , and the constable took him into custody on a purely fanciful charge as he was going home at night . All the

money the man had in his pocket was 2 s . 3 d ., and this the extortioner took , lotting the man go . Mr . Norton gave the scoundrel a month's imprisonment , and of course he will be discharged from the force . Two men were on Tuesday charged before the Lord Mayor with the serious offence of scuttling a ship on the high seas . After some evidence his lordship remanded the prisoners , refusing to accept bail . Tho Lord Mayor afterwards resumed the inquiry into the charges alleged against the secretary and manager of the Unity Bank . The evidence given was not of great impor-