The Week.

officers of tho Crown in Scotland have decided to take legal proceedings in the case of the Pampero , —a steamer recently launched on the Clyde , and said to be intended for the Confederate service . It is further reported th . it this is not the only case of alleged infringement of the Foreign Enlistment Act that is likely to come before the Scotch judges .

The court-martial on Colonel Crawley is drawing to a close . The case for the prosecution was completed on AVeclnesday , and Colonel Crawley stated that he would only have " a few" witnesses to call . These " few" witnesses having been examined , the prisoner asked for an adjournment , so that he may be enabled to prepare his defence . AVe take it that Sir Alfred

Horsford will deem it necessary to reply to Colonel Crawley's speech , and in that case a second adjournment will no doubt be applied for . The unfortunate Great Ship has entered upon another phase of her strangely unhappy career . It will be remembered that the Master of the Rolls had issued an injunction to prevent the sale of the ship till the matters in dispute were settled by

the courts of law . Since then the Queen ' s Bench have decreed that Mr . Parry , one of the creditors , had a right to " execution of judgment , " but the Master of tiie Rolls , on being applied to , refused to dissolve the injunction . An appeal was thereupon made to the Lords Justices , who , after hearing parties , reversed , thejudgment of the Master of the Rolls , ancl dissolved the

injunction that restrained the sale . A sad case was tried in the Court of Queen ' s Bench last week . A youth , named Frank elthe only child of his widowed mother— " -was travelling in the London and North-AVestorn Railway Company's omnibus between Buxton and AA haley Bridge . On the road , what is called a " race" was started between the omnibus and the mail coach , and by and by the driver of the omnibus found it necessary to pull his horse to one side . "Whilst this was being clone , the

omnibus gave a lurch , ancl Mr . If rank ol was thrown upon the ground , receiving injuries to the brain and spinal chord , which it is feared , can only end in idiotcy . Au action was therefore brought against tho Company , and Mr . Frankel appeared in Court . His shattered and helpless appearance excited the deepest sympathy ; it seems , indeed , to have completely unmanned

the Lord Chief Justice , whose utterance , says one of the reports , during his summing up , " was frequently choked by sobs , which he vainly endeavoured to repress . The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff , with £ 2000 damages . A very singular case has been hoard in the Court of Probate . A numerous family of brothers and sisters were left some £ 11 , 000 by an uncle , which was

to be divided among them in a rather complicated form . About twenty years ago one of the sisters died , and her will , bequeathing her share among the rest of the family , was witnessed by two of her sisters , and administered by her brother John . Another brother , James , who was abroad at the time , came home lately and employed an attorney to examine into his

interest in the property , giving him a mortgage over his share ofthe wills as compensation . The brother who had administered and the sisters who witnessed the will now came forward to declare that the will was a forgery . After hearing the evidence , however , the jury found that the will was valid . Three eases for compensation in the matter of the late accident

at Streatham , on the Brighton Railway line , have been settled in the Sheriffs' Court . One case only went to trial— that of a private in the Coldstream Guards , who asked for £ 1000 damages , ancl the jury awarded him £ 350 . The same sum was taken by consent for another person who also claimed £ 1 , 000 ; while a third , who asked for £ 100 , ' received £ 100 . At the

Central Criminal Court , Catherine O'Brien , found guilty of unlawfully wounding a sailor , was sentenced to IS months' imprisonment . At the Middlesex Sessions a startling episode in

criminal life occurred . A man sentenced to six years' penal servitude for stealing a bit of bacon ( of course taking account of previous convictions ) , hurled a bit of iron at a policeman who had given evidence against him . Had not the iron missed the policeman the probability is that he would never have given evidence against any one else . The assizes at Hertford was

opened on Monday by Mr . Justice Williams . A remarkable feature in the trials was the prevalence of incendiarism , which seems to have been committed out of mere wantonness . A remarkable case of night poaching aud assault on the keepers was also tried . Three young scoundrels of a very dramatic turn of mind are in custody at Hull . Highly inflamed , it is reported ,

by the perusal of the narratives of notorious highwaymen ' s lives , those lads , it would appear , from a confession made by one of them , decided upon a career ofjerime . With another boy , who has not been apprehended , they planned and executed most daring robberies , and two of them hired a cab to take them to Driffield , —it being agreed upon that on the road one of them

was to get on the box , cut the cabman ' s throat , take the reins , and drive on to some place where they might possibly succeed iu selling the vehicle and the horse . A shocking case of suicide took place last week , in the broad daylight , at King ' s-eross , by a respectably -dressed middle aged man . He was standing on the foot pavement , when a heavily

laden dray approached . On seeing it , he dropped a parcel , stepped out on the road , knelt clown , and deliberately laid his head in front of the wheel , aud in the next instant was a mangled corpse . Captain Semmes's famous vessel , the Sumter , which is now under the new name of the Gibraltar , engaged in blockade running , has arrived at Queenstown , from AVilmington . She left that port on the 14 th of November , and has on board 330 bales of cotton , eacli bale , it is said ,

weighing 8001 bs . A young woman , named Hewitt , otherwise Holt , has been sentenced to death at the Chester assizes for the mother of her mother , at Stockport . Holt , it scorns , contrived , by fraud , to effect an insurance on her mother's life , and it was in order to secure the paltry sum of money represented by the policy that the murder was committed . The old woman was poisoned by repeated doses of arsenic ; in fact , her body , after

death , was found to be saturated with the poison . An action tried in the Court of Queen's Bench affords a striking illustration of the manner in which companies arc too often formed under the Limited Liabilities Act . As by the act seven shareholders are necessary to form a company , it was arranged between the plaintiff and defendant that they should take five

£ 50 shares , that a friend should take a £ 50 share , but not be called on to pay , and the other four should bo mere dummies , taking each a share of £ 1—the result of the process being a limited liability company for carrying on the business of general agents and money lenders , consisting in reality of only two partners and £ 500 capital . A solicitor has been committed

by the AA oreestershire magistrates to the next assizes for trial on a charge of misdemeanour , for unlawfully abducting a girl of fifteen from the possession of her grandfather . The girl does not appear to have rejoiced iu a thoroughly unblemished character ; but , doubtless , this fact will come out or be disproved at the trial . The groat fight for £ 2000 between John

Carmel Ileenan and Tom King , came off on Thursday , the 10 th inst ., about a mile and a half from A \ adlmrst , a quiet country place , fifty miles from London , and nine past Tunbridgo AA ells , on the South-Eastern Railway . King appeared to suffer from the repeated "hugs" of Hcenan , and at one time his chance of success seemed hopeless ; but the tide turned in his favour , and after fighting 21 rounds in 35 minutes , ho was hailed the victor .