The Week.

a cheap edition of the same work , ancl they defend their conduct before the Vice-Chancellor on the plea that Miss Cummins is not a subject of Great Britain , as the English law of copyright requires an author to be who would take advantage of its provisions , and that there is no international treaty of copyright with the United States . A short time

ago a man named Griffiths , a solicitor , was sentenced by the Divorce Court to pay £ 1 , 000 damages to a gentleman whose wife he had debauched . In consequence of this Griffiths became a bankrupt , and when the case came before the commissioner all the creditors withdrew their opposition to his discharge except the gentleman to whom the

damages were due . The commissioner holding the damages to be a debt contracted without any prospect of repayment , refused him a discharge . The bankrupt appealed to the Lord Chancellor , who on Saturday gave judgment in the the case . He quite agreed with the commissioner as to the conduct of the bankrupt , but he held that the bankruptcy

lawwas not intended as a means of punishing immorality , and he , therefore , decided that the bankrupt was entitled to his discharge , but on condition that all the money he might hereafter earn over £ 200 a year should belong to his creditors . The will of a Mr . Almond was disputed on Saturday in the Probate Court . Almond was the husband of Miss Romer , the

well known singer , and ho had left her the whole of his property for her life ; afterwards one third to be at her absolute disposal , one third to one of his brothers , ancl the remaining third to an intimate friend of his who had materially assisted him in his business . The will was objected to by some of his other brothers , who thought that he would have left them something , ancl they set up the usual plea of incapacity ; hut it was clearly proved that there was no foundation for this ,

and the relations withdrew their opposition . The lengthened pleadings in the notorious Yelverton case have at last come to an end . Mr . Rolt having concluded his reply on the whole case , their lordships rose as soon as the learned gentleman concluded , without intimating any period when they would give their judgment . —¦—An inquest has been held at the Middlesex Hospital on the body of a gentleman who had come up from the country to

have a tumour ou his face removed by a surgical operation . Chloroform was used with the consent of the patient , hut it turned out that his habit of body was not such as to render its administration safe , as he died under its influence . The jury returned a verdict of death from misadventure . At Aldershot , on Monday , a farmer , named Nash , was charged Avith

having committed a gross outrage upon a young lady , named Moody , in a railway carriage on the South-Western line . Miss Moody was alone in a compartment with Nash , who insulted her in an abominable manner . The poor girl got outside the carriage upon the footboard , and was fortunately caught , just as she Avas falling into a swoon , by a gentleman who occupied

the next compartment . The prisoner was discharged , on the ground that as the offence was committed in Surrey the Aldershot bench had no jurisdiction , but it Avas intimated that further proceedings would taken against him . No more fearful illustration of the insecurity to which the public are exposed by the present system of railway management could be imagined

than the fatal outrage committed upon an elderly gentleman , named Briggs , on the North London Railway , on Saturday night . It would seem that Mr . Briggs took the train at Fenchurch station for his home at Hackney . Ho occupied a firstclass carriage , and Bow seems to have been reached in safety . The distance between Bow and Hackney AVick is traversed in about five minutes , and in that short interval the unfortunate gentleman was attacked , robbed of his watch , ancl thrown out

of the carriage . When discovered on the line some time afterwards , his head was found to be dreadfully injured , and he died in about 24 hours . Before his death he could give no account of what had taken place , but the compartment in which he had travelled furnished sufficient evidence that before he was forced from the carriage his assailant had inflicted frightful wounds upon upon him . The next compartment was occupied by some

ladies , but they do not appear to have heard any cries , although on the arrival of the train at Hackney they called the notice of the notice of the guard to the circumstance that some blood had been spurted through the carriage window on to their dresses as the train came from Bow . The murderer lefthishat behind . Sir George Grey stated on Tuesday night in the House of

Commons that the gold chain had been discovered at a silversmith's , and it was hoped the person who disposed of it would be found . The Government have offered a reward of £ 100 for the discovery of the murderer ; Messrs . Robarts and Co ., the bankers , have offered a like sum ; ancl a still further reward of the like amount is offered by the directors of the line , which

was the scene of the murder . At the Central Criminal Court , Frederick Charles Brecknell , waiter , was charged with the murder of Jane Lear . The crime was committed at the Lion Tavern , New Cattle Market , on the 8 th of June last . Both had been employed in the establishment ; and the prisoner apparently moved by jealousy through his addresses to the

unfortunate girl being rejected , stabbed her with a knife . The jury found hiin guilty , and sentence of death was passed in the usual Jorm . -The judges have decided that Penge is not within the area of jurisdiction assigned to the Central Criminal Court , in consequence of which the two men in custody for the murder of a woman there will be tried at the Surrey assizes . A disgraceful outrage was perpetrated at Leicester

on Monday . The Foresters had engaged the race-ground for their annual fete , and mustered in great force . Forming part of the programme of amusements was an ascent by Mr . Coxwell in a balloon . Impatieut and unruly the crowd of holidaymakers pressed in upon the aeronaut , so as to hamper his operations , and ultimately compelling him to discharge the gas from the balloon . This , of course , rendered the ascent

impossible ; ancl so exasperated the disappointed assemblage that they ripped up the balloon with knives , smashed to pieces and burned the car , and finally made such manifestations towards Mr . Coxwell himself that the distinguished balloonist had to be guarded off the ground by an escort of policemen . One man was killed , another severely , and it is believed fatally , injured ,

and several other men had a narrow escape for their lives , through the fall of a house in Maiden-lane on Monday afternoon . It appears that the site on which the house stood was wanted for a railway junction , and that the house itself was sold in lots to several builders . Each person then set to work to carry off his own share of the building , and the consequence

Avas that all the internal supports were removed while the side walls were still standing . After some little warning , which induced most of the men to get out of the way , the walls fell , burying the men in the rubbish . One was taken out dead , and the other is not expected to survive . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The Emperor of the French met

with a very enthusiastic reception on his arrival at Vichy . We are able to contradict , on good authority , the rumours prevalent of his Majesty ' s health being bad—the only ailment he suffers from is a tendency to corpulency . The Empress and the Prince Imperial have gone to St . Cloud . A shocking disaster to a steamboat on the river Saone , France , occured on Sunday afternoon . The vessel was crowded with passengers , who , rushing to one side , caused her lurch , Avhen 50 persons were thrown