The Week.

Only one case AA'as entered on yesterday . After hearing some evidence , Alderman Abbiss remanded the prisoner , but he was liberated on bail—himself in £ 300 , and one surety in the same sum .- ——On the 10 th instant , the shocking murder of a convict warder by a convict named Fletcher , who was undergoing penal servitude in the prison at Chatham , was the subject of a coroner ' s inquest . The crime appears to have been committed

with the greatest determination , and the motive ivhich instigated it ivas revenge . The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder . The inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of Mr . Tomson Bradbury , a member of Lord Truro ' * corps , was resumed . The deceased , it will be remembered , ivas fonnd in the street apparently intoxicated , and delirium tremens

setting in he ivas confined in the padded lunatic-room in St . Luke ' s Workhouse . He Avas subsequently removed to the sickroom , where he died . When he ivas examined it turned out that he had sustained the most frightful injuries , which will be found detailed in the medical evidence . HOAV these injuries ivere inflicted none of the Avitnesses ivere able to explain . The jury , in

returning an open verdict , expressed their opinion that no blame was due either to the police , the workhouse officials , or the medical gentleman AA-IIO attended on the deceased . Mr . Thomas Carlyle , it appears , has been overwhelmed ivith letters , newspapers , and other documents , since he emerged from his privacy to give the support of his name to ex-Governor Eyre .

Mr . Hamilton Hume tells the public that Mr . Carlyle cannot afford to read one of them ; and so , as an answer to all correspondents , Mr . Hume is permitted to publish the original letter which he received fiom the most conspicuous champion of Mr . Eyre . We suspect that , as Mr . Carlyle has no time to read even communications addressed to himself , he has had as little opportunity or inclination to read anything at all on the subject .

At least , it is only charitable to suppose that all the light which he says has reached him has been derived from very limited ancl unsatisfactory sources . Some pleasant disclosures continue to be made before the various election commissions . At Eeigate a lady testified to receiving , on her husband ' s account , a packet of starch , containing £ k So far as the coroner's inquest is concerned , tbe alleged murder

in Whitechapel has resolved itself into a charge of manslaughter against the man Murphy ; but the magistrate at the Thames Police-court has committed the prisoner for trial on a charge of wilful murder . A person gave himself up at Halifax , on the 10 th inst . as the self-accused murderer of the poor little boy in Seven Dials . He was known as Samuel Mortimer , but he

averred that his real name ivas Jeffery . His description , hoivever , did not correspond in all respects ivith that given in the advertisement , and there appeared some reason to suppose that he mig ht be suffering under a monomania . All doubt on the subject iva" -, hoAvever , removed by the arrival of Inspector AVest and the individual with whom Jeffery lodged , both of Avhom

identified the Avretched man , who was at once brought up to London and conveyed to Bow-street , where his examination is expected to take place . An individual , described as a strange looking man , was ou the 11 th inst charged before the Marlborough-street police magistrate ivith the very serious offence of attempting to set fire to a post office letter-box . The accused

was caught in the act of dropping what it was sought to prove were straw and lucifer-matehes in a letter-box in Oxford-street . His defence ivas that he ivas a lunatic , that he had been three times in an asylum , and that lie had been addicted to the habit of picking up paper , straw , and other things . Notwithstanding the defence , the prisoner was committed for trial . A fire of a very extensive and destructive character occurred on the 11 th

hist , in Whitechapel . The fire broke out in the warehouses of the London and North Western Railway Company , situate in Haydon-square , and soon assumed proportions of frightful magnitude . For four hours the flames successfully resisted all efforts to retard their progress . A large amount of property has been sacrificed , and some serious accidents occurred . A very useful association Avas inaugurated on the 12 th inst . —one

for the protection of poor people who aro likely to be evicted by metropolitan improvements . It Avas stated that the various schemes now on foot ivould destroy the dwellings of one hundred thousand persons of this class . The self-accused murderer of the poor child who was so brutally deprived of life some five or six AA eeks ago in a house off the Seven Dials was

brought before the presiding magistrate at Bow-street Policecourt on the 12 th inst . The capture of the wretched man has caused much excitement in the neighbourhood of Bow-street . A large crowd assembled outside the court , ancl evinced their horror of the deed by execrations against the unnatural father of the hapless child . An inquiry

by the Board ol Trade into tho circumstances attending the collision between the Haswell and Bruiser steamers was commenced at Greenwich , on the 12 th inst . It will be remembered that recently the Bruiser , a steamer belonging to the General Steam Navigation Company , came into collision with a screw collier named the Hasmell , off Aldborough . The former

vessel was wrecked , and fourteen lives were lost . The inquest on the bodies of the unfortunate persons ivho were killed by the accident which befell a Carnarvonshire excursion train , has been opened at GlandiA-yfacb . The evidence of a gu . iger and a platelayer ivho were examined , was conclusive as to the fact that a stone had been placed on the rails . It is to be hoped that the miscreant who has perpetrated this crime

will be brought to justice . A serious explosion of gas has taken place in Peckham . By some means or other a quantity of gas accumulated in a seiver which is in course of formation in that locality , and it is conjectured that the accident Avas caused by some person throwing a lighted match into the opening . The shock was violent , but although one man sustained con . siderable injuries , no lives ivere lost . At the Marlborough

Police-court , an Italian imago-maker , named Pietro Fenzi , was charged with having pirated a bust of Mr . Gladstone , which had been modelled for Mr . Stark , of Etruria Vale , Staffordshire , and by him sold in Parian marble . The defendant did not deny the fact , and with superfluous frankness stated that he had bought a bust of Mr . Cobden , the copyright of which' belonged

to Mr . Stark—intending , as it ivould seem , to use it in the same Avay . The original sold for tAvo guineas—the copy for three shillings . Mr . Tynvhitt imposed upon the defendant a mitigated penalty of £ 10 . FOEEIGN IxTEEMOEjrei ; . — In the Prussian Chamber of Deputies Herr von Forekenbcck has been elected President .

Hitherto in the session he has only been President pro tern . The Austrians are , it seems , a littlo uneasy as to their position in the Trenlino . According to a telegram from Florence , the mayors of the different toivns in the province have been requested to convoke the communal representatives for the pur . pose of drawing up in the name of the inhabitants an address

to the Emperor expressing a wish to continue united with Austria . This is a very mechanical piece of business , and ive should think ivholly useless . If the people Avisbed for continued union with Austria they ivould contrive to show it . If they did not , no manufactured addresses of this kind would keep them to their allegiance when tho opportunity came for throwing it off . According to the Austrian Gazette , the negotiations for