The Week.

authorities like Professor Huxley , Mr . Mill , and Mr . Herbert Spencer . Dr . Hunt appealed fco Dr . Boddoe to confirm his own wild theory that tho evils from which the Irish people are suffering ¦ are due , not , as Mr . Bright argues , to the conditions to which they are subjected , but to peculiarities of race . Dr . Beddoe , bowever , did nothing of the kind , hut remarked that the

misfortune was that England had undertaken to govern a people whom she coulcl nofc understand . ¦ The Mansion House Policecourt ; the other day was thronged by persons anxious to hear the examination of some persons who are charged with conspiring to defraud an insurance company , and with scutfcHng tlie ship Severn . Several witnesses ivere examined , and if their

testimony is uncontradicted , it would seem thafc the whole affair is of a most abominable character . A plan was most carefully elaborated by which the underwriters were to be defrauded . The prisoners charged with the offence were remanded for further examination . Ticbborne-street was the scene of a strange altercation the other evening . According to

tlie evidence adduced in support of a summons beard before the presiding magistrate afc the Marlbnrough-street Police-court , a friend of the Hairdressers' Early Closing Association was on the evening in question indulging in the distribution of bills for the promotion of the early closing movement in front of a liairdress . er's shop in Ticbborne-street , when the

proprietor came fco the door and threw a pail of water over the person distributing the bills . The latter inquired why he was treated so , and the answer he received was a blow in the face . The proprietor of the shop acknowledged thafc he had thrown the water and struck the complainant , but excused himself on the plea that be was provoked to clo so by the repeated annoyances of the advocates ancl bill-distributors of the early closing movement . The magistrate informed the

anti-early-closing master hairdresser that he did wrong in taking the law into bis own hands , ancl fined him 20 s . and costs . Several vagrant children were brought before the magistrate afc the Clerkenwell Police-court , and those of them for Avhose future good behaviour ample security was not given were remanded for a week that they might be transferred to an industrial school . The more general enforcement of the

provisions of the Act by which vagrant children may be rescued from the streets , is a measure ivhich public opinion is quite prepared to support . Out of the 150 , 000 children ivho , in London alone , are without any means of education , there musfc be some thousands who come within this category . A fire of a very extensive and destructive character has occurred in the parish

of St . Luke's By it the extensive premises of Mr . J . Strickland , veneer merchant and picture-frame manufacturer , situated at the rear of Pear Tree-street , close to Goswell-road , were entirely consumed , and no less than nine houses so extensively damaged that the occupants , who were struggling Avorking people , have been not alone sadly put about , but severe losers .

Lord Justice Cairns took his seat in the Court of Chancery on the 3 rd inst . This event excited great interest in the profession . Further legal changes are spoken of . Thus ifc is said Vice-Chancellor Kindersley will retire to make room for Mr . Malins , Q . C , who did nofc get in for Wallingford afc the last election , bufc who has done his party good service . Then Chief

Justice Erie is stated to have sent in his resignation , and ifc is added that he is to be succeeded by Sir W . Bovill . AU this haste to find permanent places for political supporters looks very much as if the Derby Government did not expect to hold power very long and was resolved fco make the most of its time . It is gratifying to find that the appeal for help for the people of Quebec is being generously met . There was a meeting

in Manchester on the 5 fch inst ., Avhen a canvass for subscriptions Avas resolved upon . Already the Mayor of Quebec has been directed through the Atlantic Cable to draw upon tho Mayor of Manchester for £ 1 , 000 . The Lord Mayor of London publicly invoked subscriptions for the distressed people of Quebec . Mr . Howard , the celebrated implement maker of Bedford , has

recently been upon a tour in _ the United States , and has read a most interesting paper before the members of the Parmers' Club , at the Salisbury Hotel , upon " Things in America , Social as well as Agricultural . " Mr . Howard spoke in most eulogistic terms of America , and saicl that ifc must be seen to be afc all understood or appreciated . Dickens

and Trollope might have met the characters whom they had pourtraycd in their ivorks , but from what he had seen he ivas unable to corroborate them . Mr . Howard ' s remarks upon agriculture and farming ivere of a most practical character , and will repay perusal . ——Moses Moses , the man upon whose premises a large quantity of stolen goods was

recently found , was brought up at the Mansion House for further examination . In one case ifc was clearly shown thafc goods found had been sto'en while in transit to the clocks , and upon this charge the prisoner was committed for trial . —•—A strange manslaughter case was brought under the notice of Dr . Lan * kester . It appears that an elderly person , named Hoskins , a

surveyor , residing in Kentish Town , has been in the habit of dropping into a tavern culled after the Prince of Wales . A few days before the old man ' s death the landlord of the tavern accused him of insulting his wife , ancl the deceased was forthwith ordered oil" the premises . On a subsequent day deceased seems to have gone to the tavern again , for , according to his son ' s account , the purpose of " clearing up matters . " Instead , however , of tho visit having that effect , the landlord ancl the

old man quarrelled , and the quarrel ended iu the death of fche deceased . The result of the coroner ' s inquest was a verdict of manslaughter against Richard Parry , proprietor of the tavern . A deputation Avaited , on the Gth inst ., on Sir Stafford Northcote , President of the Board of Trade , in reference to the currency question . The deputation represented the Currency Reform Association , and its views Avere explained by Mr . A

Alison , chairman of thafc association . He traced all the panics and commercial evils of these times to the fact that the Bank of England is a . trading concern , Avith a share capital , and hound to make profits . He proposed that there should be created a Bank of Issue , which should take away from tbe Bank of England the right of issue , and give out bank notes to whomsoever

chose to take them in exchange for gold or Government securities . Sir Stafford Northcote did not seem to understand how the project would work advantageously , but he promised to c onfer with tbe Chancellor of the Exchequer on the subject . The Master of the Rolls lias given judgment in a very important case affecting the episcopal income of the Bishop of Natal . Ifc is

well known that Dr . Colenso ' s salary from the Colonial Bis . hoprics Fund has been withheld for some time past , aud that he has instituted an action iu Chancery for its recove . iv . His lordship gave an absolute judgment in favour of the plaintiff laying down the principle that so long as he remained Bishop of Natal his salary must be paid , and that none of the issues which

have been decided in the other courts exempt the trustees from the responsibility they assumed on his elevation to the colonial see . A meeting was held on the Gth inst . in one of the committee rooms of Exeter Hall , to take certain steps in reference to the open church movement . Mr . J . J . Powell , Q . C , presided . The meeting discussed various matters in connection with the proposal for having the churches open for daily prayer , and also