The Week.

misrepresentations in it . The prisoner was committed for trial . An inquest was held on the 4 tb insfc . on the body of Grimshaw , the jockey , who was thrown from his gig and killed . The evidence showed that the deceased was near-sighted ; thafc he Avas driving a horse of much spirit , and thafc he got bis gig into a ditch on the side of the road , being himself thrown out and killed . The jury found a verdict of accidental death . A

melancholy fact was stated at the Middlesex Sessions on the Sth inst . An application was to have been made by Mr . Sleigh for a renewal of the music license granted to Henry Richard Speed the proprietor of the Talbot Tavern , Islington ; but while the subject was actually before the court , Mr . Speed jumped out of his bedroom window and was killed . Mr . Sleigh now applied

that tbe license should be transferred to the widow , and this will be done if her husband's Avill should prove to be in her favour . The churchivardensof Stoke-Newington made their appearance on the 6 th inst ., in the Clerkenwell Police-court , charged with assaulting Mr . Alfred Smee and Mr . Charles Jennings , and further with brawling in the church . The case arose oufc of the

recent dispute in connection with tlie service in Stoke-Newington Church . The defendants had forcibly removed Mr . Smee and Mr . Jennings from tbe organ in the church in order to instal a gentleman whom they allege had been duly appointed organist . Against them it is alleged that they were violent and used unnecessary force . The case Avas adjourned . The working

men's meeting in connection with the Social Science Congress at Manchester seems to have been an interesting affair . On the 6 th inst , Mr . II . A . Bruce , M . P ., delivered the opening address on education . It was a comprehensive sketch of what has been done and what is being done by the State in tbe matter of education . Later in the day mnny of the members and associates took part in the opening of a great co-operative mill

Advantage has been taken of the Social Science Congress to arrange for one or two other celebrations of public interest . On the Ofch inst ., Lord Shaftesbury laid the foundation stone of a ragged school ; and in the evening the Chorlfcon and Ardwick Free Library was inaugurated . Mr . Dudley Field Avas present on the occasion , and wound up a felicitous speech by expressing the hope that the city of New York would have as good free

libraries as the city of Manchester , and thafc Manchester would have as . good free schools as New York . Mr . Bruce the late Vice-President of the Board of Education , in his speech alluded , to the frequency Avith which in the Manchester Free Library works on political economy were read , and passed a glowing eulogium on the writings of Mr . Mill .

The Government have decided upon making another effort to effect the release of the Abyssinian prisoners . Mr . Flad is the gentleman chosen to proceed on this arduous and dangerous mission . He will bear an autograph letter from the Queen , and Colonel Mereweather , who will accompany him as far as MassoAvah , will carry out a number of splendid presents , Avhich

it is hoped will conciliate the Imperial barbarian . The execution of Jeffery , the St .. Giles ' s murderer , took place afc the Old Bailey , on the 9 th inst . The culprit made a full confession of his guilt , and died apparently penitent . The crowd was , it seems , more orderly than usual , and this is attributed to the change of tbe day of execution from Monday to Tuesday . There

Avere , however , not a few cases of pocket-picking under the scaffold . The Rev . Dr . Underbill has delivered a vigorous speech at Liverpool in reference to Jamaica . He contended that the negro w-as not the lazy creature which he had been described , and he pointed out how grossly the island had been misgoverned . While Jamaica was in a state of rapid decay the adjacent islands were making rapid progress , and this be argued

was entirely owing to the unjust manner in which the colony had been governed . The speech will Avell repay perusal . The Congregational Union is now in session afc Sheffield , under the presidency of the Rev . Newman Hall . The proceedings are of an interesting character . They contrast rather strongly with those of the Church Congress at York . Our readers will not have forgotten the ease of the two lads , Dye aud Pearce , who were

tried at a recent Middlesex Sessions on a charge of burglary , and acquitted on the ground that tbe evidence of two policemen who made the charge was not believed . These two policemen , named Hayes and Barry , were , on the 10 th inst ., brought up afc the Marylebone Police-court on a charge of perjury . They swore distinctly afc the trial that one of the lads Avas arrested

in the garden of a house iu Gloucester-crescent , into ivliich they were attempting to break , and that the other leaped over the Avail and was captured a few yards off . The lads Avere examined and swore that they never were in a garden in Gloucestercrescent , and that they were taken into custody in Eversholfcstreefc , nearly a mile awuy from the crescent . Other witnesses

were called Avho corroborated this statement . The case Avas adjourned . On the 9 fch inst . an inquest was held on the body of a poor fellow named Ellis , AVIIO was found in the Thames near London Bridge with his throat cut . It appeared that his death was really occasioned by drowning , and that his mind bad apparently been affected for some time past . During the inquiry

the coroner threatened fco commit one of the jurymen for misconduct . Inquests have also been held on the bodies of persons drowned in St . Katharine ' s and the London Docks , Regent's Canal , and the River Lea . At what age is a boy lawfully entitled to become his own guardian ? A boy who recently made his appearance afc the Wandsworth Police-court has taken up his abode with the gipsies AVIIO frequent that suburb of the metropolis . His

mother attended , at the court to take measures to recover the boy , bub without success . His age was first inaccurately stated to be sixteen , whereupon the magistrate said thafc be had the rights of a man and could choose his own address . Ifc was subsequently announced that the lad Avas really only fourteen years of age , but Mr . Dayman still affirmed that he was

old enough to choose his own guardian . Such a decision appears to be a great stimulus to juvenile precocity . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —Italy is apparently doing the work of setting her domestic affairs in order . No great advance in this direction is , however , likely to be made until Venetia is disposed of . The province is to be formally made over to-day

to the French commissioner , and no time will then be lost in taking tbe popular vote as to the future of tbe province . How that vote will go there is no room to doubt . The enthusiasm everywhere displayed in favour of King Victor Emmanuel and the Italian army is a pretty good guarantee of the popular desire to be united to Italy . The Palermo insurrection Avas ,

our correspondent assures us again , a serious affair , and by no means the mere momentary ebullition which the Italian Government at first represented it . Order , however , seems now to be completely restored . The formal annexation of Frankfort ; Nassau , and Ilesse-Cassel to Prussia took place on the Sth inst . The Frankfurters seem to have preserved a gloomy silence

during the proceedings . They did not approve of their " free city " becoming simply a part of Prussia . The Emperor of Austria has announced that he gives up tbe title of King of Lombarily and Venetia . Which of his many remaining titles will he yield next ? This present abdication is probably significant of a better feeling between Italy and Austria . The latter Power Avill soon have a representative afc Florence , and it may be that Ave shall see something in the nature of a close alliance between the two Poivers .