The Week.

burglar who tied her feet together . Browning and Perry , tlie men in custody charged ivith stripping a house in Farringdon Street of its fixtures to the value 100 / ., hai'o been brought up on remand , at Guildhall , before Sir P . Laurie , where in was stated that other parties ivho had charges of a similar nature against the prisoners declined to prosecute on account of the expense . Two young men , , lohn Harrington , a tanner , and Iienry Bull , a porter , were bron-jht up in custody charged with having acted as seconds to the boy Macdonald , who ivas killed in prize ' fight at Abbey AVood on a Sunday morning last month . The prisoners

a ivere sent toMaidstone Gaol to await the preparation of evidence . -Mr . Birchmore , the defaulting oi-erseer of the parish of St . Pancras , has been apprehended . He has heen to Hamburg , and only arrived in London on Monday week . He was taken to the Clerkenivell police-court , charged with having embezzled various sums of money belonging to the board , aucl ivas remanded under bail to the amount of 1200 ? . The prisoner ' s solicitor stated that Birchmore had come home frothe continent on to meet the charge . The mystery

m purpose enveloping the supposed murder at Epping Forest is still unsolved . The bodies have not been identified , and at the inquest , which is closed , a verdict of " wilful murder against some person or persons unknown" was returned . Mary Neivell , AVOO was sentenced to death at the Oxford Assizes for the murder of her child has received a commutation of her sentence to penal seri'itude for life . There is a strong opinion that this sentence is more severe than was requi ' red In the case of the Belfast conspiratorsthe determination of the

, magistrates to conduct the examination Avithin the walls of the gaol , has caused much astonishment . At the termination of the Cork proceedings , the solicitor for the prisoners thanked the Bench for the entire fairness with Avhich they had acted ; in the Belfast police-court , on the other hand , the advocate of the prisoners vehemently protested against the unconstitutional exercise of magisterial poiver to which his clients are being subjected , and he declared his intention to throw up his brief rather than plead in any place other than a court

of justice Henry Reed , sentenced to death for the murder of his wife at Manchester , ivas executed in front of Kirkdale Gaol , on Saturday morning . The wretched man made no confession of his guilt . Auguste Wilhelm , the Manchester chemist , sentenced to deatli at Ihe Liverpool Assizes , for causing the death of a female , by procuring abortion , has been respited . la the Bankruptcy Court , on Thursday , the name of Colonel Waugh was once more brought before the public . Some time since , there was a talk of prosecuting have noiv to the conclusion that

him , but it appears that his creditors eome , much as they ivould like to see him punished , they cannot make up their minds to pay the expenses of a criminal prosecution out of the estate . So they take their rod out of pickle , and henceforth Colonel Waugh ivill breathe more freely The accounts for the Quarter's Revenue show an increase of about 1 , 000 , 000 / . as compared ivith the corresponding quarter of last year . But . as the comparison is made against a period of great commercial embarrassmentit would be better

, to contrast the revenue of this quarter with the corresponding quarter of 1 . 850 . In the latter case the result would show an increase of not more , probably , than about 200 , 000 / . The portion of the increase which falls in Income-tax ivill be in a great measure compensated by unusually large receipts from miscellaneous sources . Intelligence has been received from Dr . Livingstone to the 4 th of October . The expedition-had reached Kongone River , and ivas tolerably healthy . Lord Bury recently addressed a large meetiug at Halifax in advocacy ofthe

projected Intercolonial Railway . Resolutions were adopted eulogistic of the zeal displayed by his Lordship in the enterprise . The venerable parent of Lord Clyde , our Indian Commander-in-Chief , died at Granton , on the 22 nd December , at a very advanced age , and ivas interred on Monday , in Warriston Cemetery . The funeral Avas strictly private . The Liverpool Albion states that the new weight , equal to 1001 b . avoirdupois , to be called the " Cental , " will be adopted exclusively for all transactions In the Liverpool corn-market on and after the 1 st of February next . Wakefield and Leeds are expected to concur in the movement .