The Week.

snot will , when completed , present an effectual obstacle to the further encroachments of the tides . A portion of the metropolitan end of the London , Chatham , and Dover Railway was opened on Monday . This new line will have two entrances into London—one running into tbe Victoria station at the West-end , the other running into Farringdon-street , in the City , with a

eonnection between the two . It is this connection that was opeued , trains having commenced to run from the Victoria station through Battersea , Stockwell , Clapham , Brixton , Walnrorth , and Newington to the Eiephant and Castle . This curve line performs , in fact , for the south of Loudon very much of ivhat the North London Railway does for the suburbs on . the .

Jliddlesex side , but with this important difference—that a large and respectable neighbourhood to the south of the Camberwellroad is , strangely enough , left without a station . The distance is accomplished in 25 minutes . Another riot took place on

Sunday in Hyde Park connected with the Garibaldi movement . A large number of Irish labourers , armed with bludgeons , took possession of the ground at an early period of the afternoon and , amused themselves with party cries . For awhile the Garibaldi party had sense enough to leave the Papal sympathisers to themselves , but at length some one , who paid dearly for his

rashness , called for cheers for Garibaldi . The results may summarily be stated as a large number of serious , probably some fatal , injuries , and a dozen or more of prisoners at the policestation . Several of the offenders have been brought up to the police-court , and some of them have been sentenced to fine and imprisonment . Some extraordinary , but , at the same time ,

not altogether unparalleled , revelations were made at Guildhall , on Monday . Mr . John Jennings , described as "director , secretary , and shareholder of the North Carrock Mining Company , " was charged with having unlawfully obtained

certain securities . The only evidence against him was that of a Mr , Tusfcui , who , under cross-examination , gave a somewhat instructive history of the North Carrock concern . It appears that the two mines it was proposed to work belonged to Mr . Tustin . In I 860 , a prospectus was issued , stating that the capital of the Company was £ 20 , 000 . A number of gentlemen were announced as Directorsbut none of them held sharesand

, , all ' ¦ ' resigned" in February last . Shares were then allotted to Mr . Jennings and a Mr . Hodgson , and these two gentlemen , with Mr . Tusfcin , Mr . Tustin's son , and Mr . Tustin ' s "intimate friend , Mr . AY . B . Bray , " seem to have constituted the Board of Directors , if not , indeed , the Compasy itself . After some time , however , differances sprang up in this limited " Board , "

and Mr . Jennings ( who acted as secretary , at a salary of £ 5 a month ) and Mr . Hodgson were ejected from the concernleaving the two Tustins and Mr . Bray in undivided possession of the field . Mr . Jennings , it seems , considered that the "Company" owed him some money , and he , therefore , took possession of the securities on which he believed he had a

lien . The upshot of the case was that the defendant was discharged , while Tustin ' s mining speculation was denounced ui no measured language by the Bench The police have seized a gang of swindlers who have been carrying on an extensive system of fraud . The prisoners were in the ' ab-fc of announcing in the country papers that they were prepared to advance money on very advantageous terms , and the

bait seems to have been swallowed by a large number of Persons in all parts of the United Kingdom . As soon as the applications for loans were sent in , the so-called " Richards Estate Fund Association" forwarded to their victims a promiso ''y note , which they were to return duly signed , " together with the first year ' s interest in advance , " and the cost of the stamp , The unfortunate people , who complied with this request ,

never , of course , got a penny of the loan they were expecting . A detective , who had watched the wretched hovel described as the " offices of the Association , " stated , at the Thames Police Court , on AYednesday , that he had seen the postman deliver at the place as many as 80 letters in one day . Mr . Benjamin Ward , a gentleman who had been confined as a lunatic in the Grove Hall Asylum , Bow , effected his escape from that

institution on Thursday week . The next day he was seen by the barber of the asylum walking into London , and was by him invited to return . He did so , and seemed much chagrined at having been caught . Shortly afterwards he was again missed , and on examination being made it was found that he had hung himself to the cornice of his bedstead with a new rope , which he must have bought while out of the asylum . Lieutenant M'B . aeof the 46 th Regimenthas been committed by the

, , magistrate at the Thames Police Court to take his trial on the charge of attempting to murder the cook of the ship Northumberland , recently arrived from Madras , where the prisoner had been with his regiment , and from which station he had been sent home invalided . From the evidence adduced there seems reason to believe that the prisoner is insane ; but the magistrate observed that he did not sit there to try questions of sanit

y , and remitted the case to the Central Criminal Court . The woman M'Lachlan , who lies under sentence of death a < Glasgow for the murder of Jessie M'pherson , has been respited until the 1 st of November , for the purpose of allowing time for further investigation into the circumstances of the remarkable crime of which she has been convicted . The Observer hints that , should the extraordinary " statement" read on behalf of

the prisoner after tbe verdict was delivered be corroborated in any strong degree , it will be impossible to indict old Fleming , as Scottish lawyers allege that , by the law of Scotland , a person who has appeared as a witness for the Crown in a criminal case cannot subsequently he tried for the crime which his evidence went to fasten upon another . According to this theory , Fleming , at the worst , could only be charged with perjury . . A man named Patrick Cain has been brought before the

magistrates charged with the murder of Mr . Rawcliffe , a publican at Kirkham . Mr . Rawclifff was killed by a poker which was thrown at him , entered his eye and penetrated tbe brain . Cain confessed that he was the person who threw the poker , and was committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter . A . n inquest has been held on the body of Mrs . Jane Burr , the wife of an upholsterer in the Curtain-road , whose death was occasioned from an accident resulting from the furious driving of her

husband . The jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death The life of another child has been sacrificed through the reprehensible practice of administering narcotics . Two children , named Farlow , twins , about a month old , had syrup of poppies given to them repeatedly by their parents , who reside at 21 , Salisbury-street , Portman-market . On Sunday week an overdose was administeredfrom the effects of which onea irl

, , g , died , the other , a boy , being only recovered by means of great exertion . At an inquest on the body , the Coroner , Dr . Lankester , severely condemned the giving of narcotics to children , aud especially the giving of syrup of poppies , the strength of which varied so materially that a quantity which would be ; i safe dose at one time would certainly destroy life at another . The jury endorsed these sentiments by their verdict .

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The decree by which King Victor Emmanuel grants an entire annesty to Garibaldi and all his followers , except military deserters , was published in the official journal of Turin , on Monday evening . The decree is preceded by a ministerial report , in which Signor Rattazzi says .- — " The rule of the law again consolidated , confidence in your frank but at the same time ' prudent policy has moderated the impatience which had pushed Garibaldi the path of rebellionBthe

on . y catastrophe of Aspromonte , we could perceive that it ; ' while fighting in your name , he could still achieve prodigious results , this could not continue to be the case , when , having forgotten his duty , he took up arms against your rights , whatever might have been his ultimate intentions . At present Italy is reassured —recals the services rendei-ed by Garibaldi , and wishes to forget his errors . This desire of the country is echoed ball the friends

y of the liberty and unity of Italy . When it was necessary to combat rebellion , government proposed the most energetic measures , but all the danger has now ceased . The Ministry , therefore , becomes the interpreter of these generous wishes , aud asks clemency from your Majesty . " The Official Gazette of Turin publishes the text of the convention concluded between France