The Week.

be remembered that about a year ago some persons were prosecuted at the Central Criminal Court for having in their possession a large quantity of similar notes , and according to ¦ the belief of a gentleman connected with the Russian Consul late , all the notes were printed from the same plate . It appears that the forged notes have been circulated to a large extent iu

Russia . Tlie case was only partially gone into . At the request of tbe counsel for prosecution , the prisoners were remanded . A curious fraud was exposed at the Clerkenwell Police-court on the Sth inst , Two men , named John Adams and Philip Bovell , were charged with conspiring to procure the release of Bovell from prison . On the 15 th December , Adams was sentenced at

the Thames Police-court to fourteen days' imprisonment for some workhouse offence . ' On the same day and afc the same court Bovell was sentenced to two months' imprisonment for a violent assault . On their way to Coldbath-fields Prison the two worthies agreed to exchange names , anel , as they hoped , sentences . Adams had sore legs , and wanted rest and the

medical attendance of the gaol , and therefore agreed to become Bovell for two months on condition that Bovell paid him a shilling . The exchange was made ; Adams became Bovell , and Bovell Adams in the prison . All went well until the 23 rd December , when a letter came for Bovell . Of course , ifc was taken to Adams , and he was questioned about it . Then the

whole plot became known . The prisoners were committed for trial . At the Marlborough-strcet Police-court , on the 7 th inst ., Mr . Bentinck , M . P ., residing in Charles-street , Berkeleysquare , and Mr . P . Doyle , of Half Moon-street , Piccadilly , applied to Mr . Tyrwhitt for summonses against the A ' estry of St . Georges's , Hanover-square , "for the non-removal of snow from certain streets in that parish . " The applicants expatiated on what they declared to be the neglect of the Vestry quoted the

Acts of Parliament on which they grounded their complaints , anel assured the magistrate that their sole object in asking for the summonses was to raise tho question , anel thus have ifc decided who was really responsible for tbe disgraceful state in which the streets of the metropolis had been allowed to remain during tbe last few days . Mr . Tyrwhitt had some doubt as to whether the issue of the summonses against the vestry would have any effect ,

and intimated that he would look into the Acts aud give his answer on a future clay . A coroner ' s jury has passeel a strong censure on Dr . Massingham , one of tbe Bethnal-green parish officers . Ann Terrey , a married woman , expecting her confinement , had get an oreler for the Lying-in Hospital , City-road . On the 2 nd inst . she was seized at home with labour pains , and

a cab was called to take her to the hospital ; but the cabman refused to go unless more money was paid than could be raised . The altercation was scarcely over when a child was born . The sister of the woman got an order for the attendance of Dr . Massingham , anel asked him to visit the deceased . He refused until his usual time for visiting came , and altogether , if the

statements of the witnesses may be believed , he seems to have behaved in a heartless manner . The woman died on the 3 rd inst . at noon . These facts were brought out at an inquest , and the jury declared Dr . Massingham to be unfit for the office he holds . The Lord Mayor has committed for trial the men who are charged with conspiring to defraud the underwriters by

scuttling the ship Severn . AVe have accounts of the ravages of the recent great storm . One of the most painful stories is that of how the John Cray , a Glasgow AVest Indiaman , came to be wrecked . Her captain refused all assistance , and the result was he got the ship ashore in Mount ' s Bay . The rocket apparatus was brought into use , and a line thrown right over the ship . The captain , however , refused to allow his men to avail

themselves of this means of getting ashore . Later , when the lifeboat gallantly got off to to the ship , the captain refused to leave her , and even threatened his crew if they got into the boat . Fifteen of them , however , got on board the boat , which took them safely ashore . The captain , first mate , second mate , and a French sailor who was ill , remained on board . The ship went

to pieces soon afterwards , and they were drowned . A unmeant ! influential deputation from the Evicted Tenant ' s Aid Association waited , on tbe 9 ch instant , upon the Earl of Derby , for the purpose of bringing under the notice ofthe Government the evils and miseries entailed upon the poor of tbe metropolis by overcrowding in their dwellings . The deputation urged that

Parliament should be asked to pass measures compelling railwaycompanies to provide dwellings for the poor evicted by their works ; anel , further , that Mr . Ton-en ' s bill of last session , for the rebuilding of dilapidated houses , and for otherwise providing houses for the poor , thould be passed . The Earl of Derby declared his sympathy with the objects of tbe association , and

asked the assistance of the members of Parliament present in providing a remedy for the existing state of things . —•—Mr . Tyrwhitt , on tlie bfch inst ., gave Messrs . Bentincke , M . P ., and Doyle the benefit of his opinion in reference to the liability of the vestries to answer for not clearing away the snow from the street . The magistrate seems to have been annoyed because Mr . Bentinck brought law-books into court from which to quote on the subject . He begged to assure Mr . Bentinck that

magistrates were barristers with books of their own , and not the mere Dogberries they had been described in a letter to a contemporary of ours . Coming to the question raised , he laid ifc clown that the ratepayers bad no remedy against tbe vestries if the contractors employed by the vestries neglected to remove

snow or refuse from the streets . Mr . Bentinck said he was glad to hear it , because it would compel the Logislature to deal with the matter . —Mr . James Freeling-AVilkinson , late manager of the Joint Stock Discount Company , was put upon his trial , on the 9 th inst ., afc the Central Criminal Court , ou a charge of appropriating to his own use two cheques for large amounts , the property of the company . The case occupied the whole day , and had not concluded when the court rose . In the second

court , a cooper , named Frederick Bickuell , was charged with arson , and being convicted , was sentenced to penal servitude for ten years . The- Common-Serjeant had before him the men charged with conspiring to defraud hy the mock auction dodge . After the case for the prosecution was closeel , it was contended for the defence that the offence charged did not constitute a conspiracy to defraud in the meaning of the law . The objection

was held to be fatal , anel the prisoners were liberated . I Charles Yarwood , a tailor was summoned before Alderman I AA'iliiam Lawrence charged with having committed wilful and corrupt perjury in an affidavit . Tbe defendant , in the course of some business transactions which he had with Messrs . AA'estall and Proctor , woollen-drapers , of Gresham-place , hael occasion to accept of two bills of exchange , one for £ 49 Os . 6 d ., and the

other for £ 110 . AA'hen they became due he could only meet payment in part , which satisfied the Messrs . AVestall anel Proctor . Soon afterwards fche defendant became bankrupt , anel the prosecutors at once set about obtaining judgment on the two bills they held of him . The latter met this step by swearing an affidavit to the effect that he never accepted the said two bills of exchange , or either of them , nor authorised any person on Iris behalf to do so . Alderman Lawrence decided upon committing the accused for trial .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

' ¦ ' » * AH eommunicaHons to be addressed to 19 , Salisbury-street Strand , London , AA ' . C . J . G . T . —The reports will be regularly inserted if sent to us . They should reach us not later than AA ' ednesday if intended to appear in the Magazine of the same week , as we go to press every Thursday evening , J . B . —Thanks for your report , which , with several others , has reached us too late for insertion iu our present issue . AVARDEN . —The subject of a proposed Masonic Directory was fully ventilated in this MAGAZINE some time since