The Week.

with the Royal Dramatic College . The pupils are not to be educated for the stage or a musical career exclusively ; but it is wisely designed to fit them for entering into any of the liberal professions . The Court of Queen ' s Bench has unanimously made absolute the rule for the writ of habeas corpus in the case of the men forming part of the crew of the John L . Geritz ,

now iu custody at Liverpool on a charge of piracy . Our readers will recollect that some time ago Mr . Pater , the barrister , had an altercation with a juryman at the Middlesex Sessions , which ended in a quarrel with the judge and his being fined £ 20 for contempt of court . A rule was applied for to bring the case before tbe Queen's Bench , and on the case being

¦ argued tho Lord Chief Justice gave judgment , with the concurrence of the other judges , that the case was not one for their interference , and the rule nisi was discharged . At the Central Criminal Court the case of Maria Read and Henry , her son , charged with stealing a considerable sum of money , the property of Joseph Hankin , deceased , was tried .

It will be remembered that Hankin lodged , up to the time of his | death , in the house of the female prisoner at Dalston . The sou was acquitted , and tbe mother found guilty . Sentence was postponed , to give the prisoner an opportunity of furnishing information concerning the stolen property . Henry Powell and William Finch were charged with stealing a sum of money

from John Mansell Chambers . The case was one of the ordinary skittle-sharping description , to which dupes are apparently always to be found , notwithstanding the warnings continually given . The prisoners were both acquitted . James Ansel ] , William Beaumont , and Giovanni Pedrolli were convicted of burglary and robbery at the warehouse of a looking-glass manufacturer in the City , and sentenced to five years' penal servitude , ten months' imprisonment , and nine months' imprisonment

respectively . An inquest has been held at Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum , on the body of an inmate , who was killed by a blow with a piece of gas-piping , inflicted by another inmate The extraordinary part appeared to be the putting in the same ward of the deceased , who was described as imbecile , his assailant , who was described as a violent raving madman . The inquiry was adjourned to allow of further investigation on the

point . At the last meeting of the Common Council a discussion arose on the fees paid by suitors in the Lord Mayor ' s Court , out of which it was proposed to increase the salary of the registrar . Mr . Lowman Taylor suggested that it would be better if the fees were reduced , but on its being explained that at present the surplus was trifling , the original motion was

agreed to . Several sums were voted to public charities , and also a hundred guineas was unanimously voted to the Society for the Breeding of Fish in the Thames , as it was considered that the society was of the utmost importance to the health and recreation of the metropolis . The two men , Brice and Scott , who recently committed a

murderous assault on a Dr . Rowe , at Liverpool , have been committed for trial—bail being refused . It seems that Dr . Rowe was at one time the accepted suitor of a lady who subsequently jilted him and married Brice , and that the object of Brice and Scott in going to the prosecutor ' s house on the ni ght they attacked him was to obtain possession of some letters

which had passed between Dr . Eowe and Mrs . Brice , and which the former had refused to give up on tbe plea that they mi ght be required to refute aspersions which had been cast upon his character . A man named Eames , who was stabbed as far back as the 19 th of last month , died on Saturday , in St . Mary ' s Hospital , Paddington . He was in a public-house in Lisson-street , where a man named Murphy was also drinking , but there does not appear to have been any quarrel between them . When

they got m the street , however , Murphy opened a clasp knife , stabbed him and then ran away , but was secured and is now in custody . Eames was conveyed to the hospital , where he lingered in great agony , till his death on Saturday last . A tragic occurrence is reported from Huddersfield . Early on Saturday morning a man named Haigb , residing at Bradley , near that town , commenced a furious attack upon his wife .

Her cries were heard by her uncle , an old man who lived with her , and , upon his coming to her assistance , Haigh knocked him down , and literally trampled him to death . Haigh is supposed to be insane . A shocking domestic tragedy was brough t to light in the course of an inquest , which took place before the Middlesex coroner at Tottenham , on Monday last . A civil

engineer of the name of Tregear married about ten months ago , after a short acquaintance with his wife , who was little over sixteen at the time of the marriage . They lived happily together for some time , till the husband suspected , and as he says from a paper left behind him , ascertained , that his wife had been debauched by a lodger in their house . This so preyed on

his mind that on Wednesday he shot himself in his wife ' s presence , and died almost immediately . But the case is rendered more painful still from the circumstances that some days before he and his wife agreed together to take poison ; that he swallowed it , but was saved by a doctor being called in , while his wife is charged by his relatives with having only pretended to

agree iu order to get rid of him . It is fair to say , however , that this is denied by the widow , but her conduct in the matter was such as toelicitfrom thejurya strong censure in their verdict . A sad accident occurred on board the steamer Leinster Lass , while on the voyage from Drogheda to Liverpool , on Thursday morning . The nature of the accident is not very clearly stated , and the accounts of the loss of life vary widely . It would

seem that , through some derangement of the machinery , a hole was made in tbe bottom of the ship , and that the greatest confusion arose among the passengers , who feared that the vessel could not be kept afloat . A singular accident , accompanied unfortunately by great loss of life , has occurred at Saddleworth . About midnight on Tuesday the chimney of the Eoyal George Mills fell . In its descent it crushed three

cottages , in one of whicli no less than ten persons were sleeping . They were killed , and it is feared the loss of life is even greater than this . The accident is attributed to an uneven settling of the materials of the chimney and to the high wind blowing at the time . A disastrous explosion of the boiler of one of the locomotives on the Metropolitan railway took place on

Monday , fortunately not attended with immediate loss of life , although several persons are seriously injured . The catastrophe occurred at the Bishop ' s-road station , the roof of which was blown off and much other damage done . A locomotive engine boiler burst at Colne station on Monday morning , causing the death of tho driver and some injury to the stoker . The Eev .

Uriah Tonkin , a Cornish magistrate , writes to the Times to correct " an erroneous statement" that he had committed seven gipsies to twenty-one days' hard labour for " sleeping under tents , as their only offence . " Their " offence " was of a much more serious nature—namely , " sleeping under tents , having no visible means of subsistence , and not giving a good accounts

of themselves . " FOKEION INTELLIGENCE—Such accounts as have yet reached us respecting the victory won hy the Danish squadron off Heligoland add a few particulars to the statement made by Sir George Grey in the House of Commons on Monday night . The Austrian frigate set on fire was the Sehwarzenberg , which had 100 men killed and wounded , lost her foremast and bowsprit , and sustained other serious damage : but the flames wore ex-