The Week.

tion of his ease , and his discharge by operation of law . i The insecurity of railway passengers against the violence of any madmau or ruffian with whom it may be their misfortune to be caged up , has received a fresh illustration . On Tuesday week , a Mr . anel Mrs . Barrow were travelling on the London and Brighton Railway . Their companions in the carriage were

a gentleman , whoso name is not stated , aud a person , named Finigan . It seems that Finigan , who is described as " an intelligent-looking young man , " insulted Mrs . Barrow , whose husband , of course , resented the scoundrel ' s conduct . Upon this Finigan drew a clasp-knife , and attempted to stab Mr . and Mrs . Barrow . The other gentleman in the carriage came

to the assistance of the Barrows , anel a " frightful struggle « nsued ; " but Finigan was ultimately overpowered . There were loud cries for assistance from the carriage where this struggle was going on , hut , of course , no relief came until the next stopping place was reached . Finigan has been summarily committed by the Sussex magistrates , at Brighton , to

two months' imprisonment . Tho defence was that Finigan was madly and insensibly drunk ; and witnesses were called to show his previous good character . The presiding magistrate dilated on the enormity of the offence , and told the defendant that but for his character he would have been committed for trial . Several days ago an old man and his daughter , named Davis ,

were found within the lodge at RAchmond-terrace , Parliamentstreet , lying exhausted on the floor , and both covered with blood . They had attacked each other in a drunken quarrel , one with a table-knife and the other with a fork , and inflicted on each other several severe wounds . They have since been both in the hospital , but on Monday both were brought up , a most miserable spectacle , to the Bow-street police-office , where the father , an old man , nearly 80 , refused to make any charge

against his daughter , anel both were discharged . The old man has , of course , lost his situation , and both were sent to the workhouse for the present . The inquest into the cause of the calamitous railway accident at Hunstanton , upon the Great Eastern line , by which six persons lost their lives , has been brought to a close . It appeared plain that the statement

which was ventured as-to the line being well fenced was quite false . The disaster was caused by a bullock straying on to the Sine , anel the evidence shows that iu some parts there was r . o fence at all . The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental Death , " but declaring that it arose from the gross negligence of the company in neglecting the fences ,

and in the disgraceful state of the carriages employed . They also censured the Government inspector for having certified a line as safe that was so inadequately fenced . A woman , attending as a monthly nurse , has been burnt to death in the New North-road . The victim incautiously brought • a lighted candle near the bed of her mistress , and set it on fire .

The mother and baby were severely burnt , and tho nurse herself , in her efforts to extinguish the fire , was fatally injured . A woman Perry , who one night last week stabbed to death the man William Burke , with whom she had cohabited , in the Kingslaml-road , has been sent for trial on a charge of

manslaughter , founded on the verdict of the coroner ' s jury . Tlie crime was committed in a drunken brawl . A coroners in-¦ quivy respecting the death of Anne Griffin , who , it was alleged , had been murdered b y a man with whom she cohabited in Lambeth , has been held . The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against George Bfigent , for whose apprehension a

warrant has been issued . A coroner ' s inquest on the boc . lv of the little girl that was found buried in a nursery garden at Islington has boon concluded . It will he remembered that a young man named Clarke was in custody for the murder , but

the solicitor appointed by the Treasury to conduct the prosecution before the police magistrate abandoned the charge of murder against him a few days ago , and determined to proceed against him for an indecent assault on other girls . The evidence before the coroner could not bo carried farther than that before the magistrate , and the jury , in consequence , returned a verdict

of wilful murder against some person unknown . The agents of the Russian government have commenced a prosecution against a young gentleman who gives the name of Alfred Styles , for recruiting for the Polish army . The defendant and other ex-Gavibaldian adventurers seem to have been forming a brigade in London to aid the Poles , and when nearly the whole of a

desired number had been enrolled , the measure was discovered by the Russian authorities . The case occupied one of tbe London police courts nearly the whole of Tuesday , and was not concluded . One of those crimes which , although of deplorable frequency , are . still termed shocking , was perpetrated on AA ' ednesday morning . A man named Dupey , a weaver , living at

Bethnal-green , and with his wife and three grown-up children occupying a single room , got up shortly after midnight and cut his wife ' s throat with a razor so effectually that death must have been instantaneous . The children raised an alarm , but the murdi'rcr had fled . On reaching the Regent ' s Canal , he cut his own throat and flung himself in the water , in which his body

was a few hours afterwards found . Tho motive for the double crime is not yet ascertained . An inquest was held at Birmingham on Tuesday on the body of a man named Jefferson ., whose death was recorded the other day , from a blow inflicted with a poker by one of his neighbours . The evidence showed that the deceased man had been drinking , and that he interfered in a quarrel between husband and wife , and was about to strike the husband , who hit him with a poker . The jury returned a

verdict of manslaughter against the man , whose name is George Bigneli . A curious trial , anel one of some importance to the families of the metropolis , was brought before Mr . Commissioner Kere , at the Sheriffs , Couvfc on . Wednesday . A baker named Ryley , summoned the manager of a bread-baking company for wages in consequence of dismissal . Tire manager pleaded that

he spoiled the bread , to which the plaintiff answered that the materials furnished him were bad . The evidence adduced will not sound very pleasant in the ears of onr bread-eating population . The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The Emperor of tbe French will hold a grand reception in Paris on Saturday next , that being

his fete day . It is said , also , that a review on an important scale will be conducted by his Majesty on tho following day , in the Champs do Mars . The notes of the three Powers have been despatched to St . Petersburg . Nothing has yet transpired possessing any claim to reliability in relation to the lute French cabinet council . The Paris papers assert that the

contents of the three notes are similar in substance , and sometimes even identical in language . The impression , however , grows stronger and stronger that there is no alliance for any but diplomatic purposes , and that there will consetpieutly be no war . The Moniieur of Saturday published the full text of Princa flortschnhoff's late despatch to the R-ussian ambassador

in Paris . The general opinion of the French press appears to be that the second despatch intends to apologise to France for the sharp and ironical tone of tlie first , but that it does not hold out 11 j : ¦ ¦ hope of compromise with regard to Poland . A Stettin journal publishes intelligence from Poland to the effect that the conduct of the insurrection is entirely in

the hands of the aristocracy . It is further stated that thc seat of the soi-disant Polish National Government is at Paris , and that Czartoryski is at its head . A telegram from Cra-