The Week.

strange and not very pleasant light was thrown at the Southwark Police-court on the manner in which some of the ketchup sold in London is made . A summons was applied for against a firm of ketchup and jam makers at Bermondsey on a charge of having on their premises a large quantity of putrid salt bullock's liver unfit for human consumption . It was explained

that the bullock ' s liver was put into strong brine , and from the mixture , coloured with burnt inalt , " pure Leicestershire iketchup" was made . The magistrate decided that he could not grant the summons' asked for , but the matter is to be brought before the Bermondsey vestry . Two diabolical attempts at murder , in one case unfortunately successful ,

were made in Brighton on Thursday week by a man named Leigh . In consequence of a family quarrel he fired at his sister-in-law , Mrs . Harton , the shot taking effect in her lungs . Another bullet struck a . man behind whom she had -attempted to screen herself . Subsequently a struggle took place between the assassin and the police , and the former attempted

to murder the superintendent . The details are of a most shocking description . Mrs . Harton died the next clay . The prisoner was brought up for examination ancl remanded . ——A young man named Loosemore was brought up at the Mansion House charged with stealing a bill of exchange for £ 2 , 500 , the property of his employers , Messrs . Isnard and Co ., of Grace-¦ church-street . He was a confidential clerk , and had been entrusted with the bill to pay into the bank . Instead of doing so he discounted it for his own use . It is believed that he has

stolen at least £ 6 , 000 , which he has lost in speculation . He was remanded . The adjourned inquest on the bodies of the French gentleman and his mother who committed suicide at Paddingtou on Friday week . Some police evidence was given to the effect that the deceased gentleman had complained to Sir Richard Mayuo that be was watched . The impression of

Inspector Williamson was that he was of unsound mind . The jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity . The official report of the Court of Inquiry into the collision in the Channel between tbe Samphire and the Fanny Puck is publishBtl . The Court blames Captain Bennett for driving his ship at such a speed as twelve knots an hour on a night so hazy as that on

which the accident happened . As , however , the collision was mainly due to the Fanny Buclc carrying no lights , the Court does not think it necessary to suspend Captain Bennett ' s certificate . It severely censures the conduct of the crew of the Samphire in leaving their ship apparently in a sinking state and taking to the boats , ancl describes the conduct of the mail master as having been cowardly for a similar reason . Captain

Bennett is praised for his conduct after the collision . The requirements of the mail contract as to speed no doubt cause tbe captains of the steamers to drive their vessels at great speed , but do not , the Court thinks , justify them in doing so in hazy weather . Finally , it is recommended that although the Samphire has all the boats required by the Board of Trade regulations , she should have still more .- Edward Miles and Mary

Mahony were committed for trial at Southwark Police-court for the wilful murder of John Shea . There was a fight on Christinas Eve in Elizabeth-place , Drummond-street , Bermondsey , in which the deceased received his death blow at the hands , it is said , of the two prisoners . Mr . Heath , a coffeehouse proprietor , attended at the Thames Police-court on

Friday week , to reply to certain statements made by Corporal Thompson in so far as they affected him . He denied that he acted as touter to the emigration agents ; that the soldier was drunk while he was in his house ; or that he knew before yesterday that be was a soldier at all . . Mr . Paget said he thought that Mr . Heath ' s explanation was " perfectly

satisfactory . " Mr . Alney , the emigration agent , also at « tended , and made equally satisfactory explanations . A man named Robert Travis , who had slept two or three nights in the St . Pancras AVorkhouse casual wards , went there on the night of the 26 th January . Next morning he left , went to the house of his brother , and died before medical help could be obtained . He suffered from a bronchial affection , and when

he went to the workhouse he was put into a warm bath , and then sent to his mattress with no shirt ou and only a rug qr two to cover him . This at the inquest on Saturday was stated to be the practice at St . Pancras Workhouse . AU the casuals sleep nude . A surgeon , examined at the inquest on Saturday said Travis ' s death had not been accelerated by this treatmen

but was caused by effusion of blood to the brain , and a verdic in accordance with that evidence was returned . It was stated that the attention of the guardians has been called to the manner in which the casuals are treated , and that a change is to be made . George Pepper , an elderly man , was brought up at Brentford on Saturday charged with the

murder of his wife . Deceased was a cripple and an invalid , unable to move from her chair without assistance . The prisoner , on the 12 th of January , when drunk , threw her from her chair , and kicked her so that she died . He was committed for trial for wilful murder . The resignation of the Indian Secretaryship by Sir Charles AA ood is announced . Ill-health , resulting

from his recent accident , is said to be the cause of the retirement from office of the right hon . baronet . It is reported that Earl de Grey will be transferred to the India Office , and the Marquis of Hartington be made Secretary for AVar . A filial accident happened near Windsor on Monday . Some waggoners in the einuloyment of Mr . Thorn , farmer , left AVindsor on that day with some loads of barley for Staines . On their way back they

took what is called the lower road , which runs on the sloping bank of the river , and which was partially covered with water . The first waggon , which was driven by a man named Hambledon , had not gone far when it was carried into the stream , and the man and his horses were drowned . The late storms and floods had , it seems , swept away part of bank of the river . On Tuesday afternoon , in Eldon-street ,

Finsbury , a man named Adam Exell went up to a man named John Cox and deliberately stabbed him three times in the neck . The wounded man received help immediately , but he is in a precarious state . Exell was followed and apprehended . He had been in the service of Messrs . Sadgrove , upholsterers , and had been discharged for gross misconduct .

The man he stabbed was a salesman , also in the employ of Messrs . Sadgrove , and Exell seems to have had special spite against him and some other men in the same employment . An important decision ivas given in the Court of Exchequer on AVednesday . A Mr . AA'ilson had sued Mr . Jones , an underwriter , for £ 200 , for which sum he bad insured the plaintiff ' s

interest in the Atlantic Telegraph Cable . The defence was that there was not loss within the meaning of the policy . The court held the contrary , and gave judgment for Mr . Wilson . At the Middlesex sessions on AA eduesday a seaman named Turner was charged with having stolen a coat belonging to a sailor named Quin , one of the survivors of the London .

Although the case was one of an ordinary character , the appearance in court of a poor fellow who had so recently been exposed to the direst peril seems to have occasioned a great deal of interest , and the prisoner was sentenced to nine months ' imprisonment . FOEEIGN INTELLIGENCE . —It seems that Spain , after all , is not in a state satisfactory to its rulers . It has been thought necessary by the Ministry to propose a bill subjecting the press