The Week.

done . The meeting of the London , Chatham , and Dover Railway Company , which has heen looked forward to with much interest , took place on the 31 st ult . in St . James ' s Hall . The proceedings were ol a stormy character , and some extraordinary revelations were made . The conduct of Sir Morton Peto , in respect to an over issue of debenture stock , AVHS

especially called into question . A committee of investigation was appointed , and the meeting was adjourned to the 12 th of October , when the committee is to make its report . j-In the Sheriffs' Court , on the 1 st inst ., a case ivas heard which seems to point to a defect in tho law . A man was sued for lis . for the rent of two rooms . He said the landlord had bought

the houses recently , and had at once raised the rent of the two rooms from 5 s . 6 d . to 7 s . 6 d . Defendant declined to pay this , and the landlord told him if he would go out he would forgive him two weeks' rent then due . He went out , and now Avas sued for the lis . for the two weeks' rent . The promise to forego the rent does not seem to have been denied , but Mr .

Commissioner Kerr decided that it was not binding , and that the sum claimed must be paid . The inquest on the bodies of the four hoys who were drowned the other day while bathing at Brighton has been held . It resulted in a verdict of accidentally drowned , and the jury expressed their opinion that Mr . Taylor the schoolmaster , in whose care the boys were , Avas in no wise

to blame . The Atlantic cable of 1865 has been picked up . On the 2 nd inst ., at twenty minutes to six o ' clock , signals were received through the cable at Valentin , and the information was conveyed that those on board the ships were engaged in splicing the old cable to the portion on board the Great Eastern . This is good news in a double sense ; for it not only gives the assurance of the speedy opening of a second wire but it fully justifies the calculations of its promoters . Further , it shows

that the cables do not deteriorate in the water , and thus the value of the existing cable must be increased iu the public mind There has hitherto been a feeling of fear lest the newborn communication should be snapped . The picking up of the old cable is proof that there is nothing to fear from natural causes . An extraordinary attempt to murder im aged lady was made near Birmingham on the 1 st instant . A woman named

Jones Avent to the house of Mr . Charles Dickinson Stnrge at Edgbaston , and asked to see Mrs . Sturgc . She was shown into a room , and while there Mrs . Clark , an old lady who was staying Avith the family , entered the room . Jones , after a few words had been exchanged , rushed upon Mrs . Clark and stabbed-her in the throat with a carving-knife . The shrieks of the wounded

woman brought help , and the would-be murderess was got away . She is evidently insane . Mrs . Clark is in a precarious condition . ——Thomas Grime was hung at Liverpool , on the 1 st instant , for the murder of James Barton , near Wigan . Nearly 50 , 000 persons were present at the execution . Grime seems to have been fully unsigned . The news from the

Great Eastern iip to the 3 rd instant was favourable . Notwithstanding that a heavy gale was blowing , she was paying out continuation of the cable of 18 G 5 most successfully . A meeting was held on the Srd inst . to consider the propriety cf raising a fund to present a testimonial to Mr . Edmond Bcalcs on account of his removal from the office of revising barrister

by the Lord Chief Justice . The meeting was held in the lower St . Martin's Hall , and was most numerously attended . A committee was formed to receive subscriptions . A meeting : Avas also held on Clerkeuv . ell-green to express indignation at the conduct of Mr . Ex-Governor Eyre . Mr . Osborne presided , and at least 2 , 000 persons were present . Resolutions declaring the opinion of the meeting that Mr . Eyre had been guilty of great cruelty were unanimously passed . Subsequently an

effigy of Mr . Eyre was burnt . An industrial exhibition possessing some new features has been opened at the Agricultura Hall , by Mr . Hanbury , M . P . for Middlesex . Excepting the great international shows of 1851 and 1862 , the exhibitions we have had in the metropolis hitherto have been confined to particular districts . This exhibition represents tho cleverness aud talent of the working classes of the United Kingdom and

Australia . It is in this , therefore , and in other respects quite a novelty in the industrial exhibition line . The promoters and managers of the present exhibition are the same gentlemen , Avho carried the North London Exhibition of 1861- to such a successful issue . In fact , the exhibition now opened owesits existence to the successful and gratifying results of

the previous exhibition . There was a very large assemblage of persons present at the opening ceremony , and everything seems to have passed off very satisfactorily . A man named Sullivan was murdered in Rosemary-lane on the 1 st instant . He'had been quaii-elling with a man named Timothy Murphy , who was heard vowing that he would kill him . Both men

lived in the same house , and late in the evening met in the passage of the house . There was a struggle , in the course of Avhich Sullivan was stabbed to the heart , and died almost immediately . Murphy is in custody . The landlord of some houses in Caledonian-street , Islington , has been summoned by the Vestry of St . Mary's , Islington , for having one of his houses

in such an overcrowded state as to be prejudicial to health ,, and for allowing persons to dwell in underground rooms , contrary to tha provisions of the new Sanitary Act . He wasordered to pay costs and penalties amounting to fifty-eightshillings . The evidence of Lieutenant-Colonel Dawkins before the Totnes Bribery Commissioners is very curious . He was very anxious to get into Parliament , in order that he

might expose what he considered to be the injustice of his own case . Mr . Spofforth , the Tory Manager-General of Elections , introduced him to Totnes . He went there , spent -G-l-, 099 lGs . 8 d ., chiefly in bribery , and was not returned . Full of anger , he petitioned against the return of Mr . Pender and Mr . Seymour . Negotiation wove opened for the withdrawal of the petition , and Colonel Dawkins's

terms wore his own election expenses and the institution of an investigation into his case by the House of Commons . The commissioners very naturally inquired ivho he expected to move the House to such an investigation . Colonel Dtiwkins promptly replied to the Minister at AA- ' ar . He did not expect the Minister to bo a party to the

compromise , but he did expect him to move for an investigation _ - As we all know , the negotiations were broken off , and the petition went for trial . The Great Eastern was successfully laying the Atlantic cable on the ' 1 th inst . The weather ivasfine , and the sea calm . The great national Eisteddfod hasbeen opened at Chester , under the presidency of Sir AV .

AVAV ' ynii , Bart . M . P . The proceedings wero of an interesting character . They are to be . continued during the Aveek . ——The Commercial-road station of the Greenwich railway has been the scene of rather a serious accident . It appears that , in consequence of some mismanagement of the signals , an empty engine was allowed to proceed on the Bricklayers' Arms siding ,

and it lan into a passenger train proceeding to Greemvich . We are glad to learn that no fatal consequences resulted , and that the traffic of the line Avas not stopped . The Great Eastern had on the Sth inst . made fair way in completing the old Atlantic cable . She was going on all Avell , and the continuity and insulation of the cable were perfect . —" The adjourned inquest on the bodies of the sufferers by the accident [ on the Great Eastern railway near Ely , was held ; on ,