The Week.

at the parish church at Oeslau . Her Majesty has arrived from the Continent , and will hold a council on Monday at Windsor . GENERAL HOME NEWS . —The weekly return of the Registrar General again shows that the mortality in London is below the average by about 110 . During the week four deaths from cholera are reported , but as the Registrar General observes , " cases occur sporadically every Aveek in summer in every

country of Europe and Asia . " During the last ten weeks there have been 127 deaths from cholera in London ; but this is nothing extraordinary , and is indeed believed to be less than in many other cities of Europe * The births too are again in excess of the average . Tile rate of mortality is less in London than in any of the great cities of the kingdom , except Bristol ;

Dublin and Birmingham are next ; Hull having a death rate of sixty per cent , and Salford fifty , greater than the metropolis . The corporation is taking active steps in regard to the -cattle plague . Inspectors of cattle have been appointed , and one of them—Mr . Tegg—proceeding at once to bis duties at the Cattle Market , condemned over 40 cows ia a diseased state ,

which had been sent to the market for sale . An application was made to the judge in chambers for an order for the removal of the trial of the soldier Currie , charged with tho murder of Major de A ere , from Maidstone to tho Central Criminal Court . The application was made in the name of Earl de Grey and Ripon—the object sought to be

obtained being the speedy trial of the culprit . The order Avas made , and Currie will therefore be tried accordingly at the next session of the Central Criminal Court . At the West Ham Police-court Jacob Brenner and Charles Heins were charged with having murdered their master Joseph Kuchen , a cabinet maker . The evidence which was heard , as well as the dying man ' s declaration , made it clear that the

fatal wound was inflicted by Brenner . Heins was then discharged and put in the witness-box . According to his statement there had been a quarrel between the accused and the deceased . Brenner was committed for trial for manslaughter , bail being refused . About half-past eleven o'clock on Wednesday night , August 30 , William Ellison quarrelled with his wife , at their lodgings in Baldwin-street , City-road , and

attempted to kill her . He inflicted a dreadful wound on her throat with a table knife . She , however , escaped from hiin , « nd made her way to the street where she was assisted . Ellison , on being taken into custody , said his wife had threatened to go and live Avith another man , which exasperated him . He was brought up at the Worship-street Police-eourtand remanded .

The accident on the Great Northern line at the Colney Hatch station was a more serious affair than at first stated . A coal train was being shnnted at the station when a bar broke , thus causing a delay . The danger signals were put up , and these the driver of the Midland passenger train says he saw . He at once began to slacken speed , but either from a miscalculation

of the distance , or because the rails Avere slippery , be was unable to bring tho train up in time . The result was a collision . No less than about fifty were injured , some of them rather seriously . Most of them are , however , doing well . Alexander Barthe , a Frenchman , who is charged with extensive frauds , was brought up at the Mansion House police-court . He had under various

names represented to several ecclesiastical dignitaries on the Continent that parcels had arrived for them in this country , which he would forward on receipt of the charges . In several cases the money demanded was sent , and then the prisoner despatched dummy parcels . He was again remanded . -Mr . Hennett , the clockmaker , of Cheapside , has placed a great attraction in front of his premises . To his great clock he has added figures which come out every quarter of an hour and

chime the time . People congregate to look on this marvel , and the way is stopped by them . Those who occupy premises opposite complain that their property is injured and their business impeded by the crowds who gather . The aldermen and the Lord Mayor have been invoked to put the figures down , and they promise to see what they cm do in the matter . On Saturday last the French squadron , consisting of the nine

A'essels of war , the officers and crews of which were entertained at Portsmouth last week , left the English shores . Officers aud men on departing gave expressions to the delight they had experienced at the reception they met with . Another case of murder is reported . A man named Henry Richmond lived with Charlotte Scott in a bouse in White ' s-

grounds , Gun-alley , Bermondsey . On Saturday evening last , when Richmond went home he found no meal ready for him , and the woman drunk . In a state of exasperation he knocked her down by a blow on the head , and then kicked her on the head till her skull was fractured . She died immediately . The coroner committed him for trial on a charge of

manslaughter . The late extraordinary case of perjury tried at the Central Criminal Court has been followed by an extraordinary charge of forgery arising out of the same series of transactions . Mr . Frederick Thomas Hall , a solicitor of Gray ' sinn , has been charged before Mr . Arnold , at Marlboroughstreet , with forging and using certain writs and other papers ,

purporting to be copies of process in the Court of Exchequer , for the purpose of the cause that was tried in that Court , against Madame Valentin . After hearing the statement of counsel , the magistrate said the question was one of great importance and novelty , and he would take time to consider and consult before he gave his decision . Sir Bobert Carden gave a curious decision on Monday in his

capacity as magistrate sitting at Guildhall . Three young men were charged with attempting to pick pockets , and two detective officers gave clear and consistent evidence in support of the charge . On the other hand , a number of respectable persons bore testimony to the good character of all the prisoners . Whereupon the magistrate , premising that the case was one of " conflicting testimony , " proceeded to say that the

evidence of the officers was " most conclusive , " but that nevertheless the good character given to the prisoners raised a doubt in his mind , and he concluded by discharging them . An alarming collision occurred on Monday afternoon near Droitwich , on the Great Western line , in consequence of a goods train breaking down . A Birmingham passenger train

ran into it , and the result was the infliction of severe cuts , bruises , and other injuries on several of the passengers . The magistrate at Wandsworth police-court on Wednesday was engaged for some hours in hearing a case of abduction against a young man named Smith , a groom , the lady being the youthful daughter of the Rev . Mr . Crosse , rector of Ockham . The

case was not decided , and the defendant was enlarged under bail of £ 100 . An explosion of gas took place on Wednesday in Auckland-street , Yauxha-11 . Five children were seriously burnt . There was another accident on the Thames Embankment works on Wednesday . A travelling engine fell over into the river , carrying with it a labourer . He Avas got out

speedily , but he had sustained a compound fracture of the leg , and it is doubtful whether he will survive . FOHEIG-N INTELLIGENCE . —The German minor powers are byno means satisfied ^ to allow the Gastein convention to go unopposed . The official \ Gazelte of Munich denies in the most emphatic manner that Saxony , AVurtemherg , and Bavaria have come to an understanding not to oppose the policy of the great German Powers . On the contrarv , it states that Bavaria has