The Week.

a closing address , in which he paid a high compliment to the character of this and other similar exhibitions which have been held in the metropolis . A curious case came on for trial in the Bail Court on the 12 th inst . A Airs . Absolon sued Air . Statham , oue of thc surgeons of thc Great Northern Hospital , for damages for an assault . Thc assault consisted in the extraction of six teeth ancl the administration of chloroform to the plaintiff . She ,

it seems , suffered severely from toothache , ancl consulted the defendant , who advised that-she should have a tooth extractedjwhilc under the influence of chloroform . She declined , but subsequently went to the Great Northern Hospital , where she says chloroform was administered to her against her will , and six of her teeth drawn while she was insensible . The shock to her nervous system was so great that she has since partially lost thc use of hor limbs . Several medical

witnesses were examined , who said the plaintiff ivas suffering from hysteria . The " case had not concluded when the court ro"c . A girl named Anne Froud , described as a servant out of place , was brought before the presiding magistrate at the AA'estminster Policecourt on the 12 th inst ., charged with endeavouring to obtain a charitable contribution from the Dowager Duchess of Grafton by false ancl fraudulent pretences . Evidence was adduced proving that

the accused had made use of the names of several respectable persons for dishonest purposes , ancl , of course , without the knowledge of tiio . se persons . One gentleman declared his belief that she had used his name on several occasions . The prisoner admitted the false pretence , and seemed to be fully alive to the position in which her conduct had placed her . She was remanded for inquiries to be made . -The Master of the Rolls gave a salutary notice to the liquidators of

defunct joint stock companies on the 17 th inst . He had seen it staled that some of the liquidators were in ihe habit of lending out on short loans the money which came into their hands on account of the estates they were winding up . His lordship severely reprehended the practice , and announced that steps would be taken to prevent its continuance . There was a grand ceremonial at the Guildhall , on the 17 th inst . The City authorities had kindly granted to the

coinmittee of thc Albert Orphan Asylum the use of the Guildhall for a bazaar and fruit and i . mver show , in aid of the funds of that institution . The Duke of Edinburgh consented to open Ihe bazaar . There was a large and brilliant gathering . A suitable address was presented to the Duke , and his Royal Highness letnrnecl a fitting response . He then went through the exhibition , partook of a collation , and left the building . It is to be hoped that the bazaar thus

auspiciously opened will bring in a goodly sum in aid of the benevolent objects of the Albert Orphan Asylum . There was an amusing discussion in the Court of Aldermen . It began by Alderman Sidney censuring Alderman Sir 11 . Garden for his remarks made from ( lie bench in reference to the Lord Mayor ' s Show . But Alderman AVilson gave the matter a much wider scope . He complained that the arrangements for ihe banquet on Lord Mayor ' s day were

von- bad , and gave numerous instances of the indignities to ivhich distinguished persons were subjected . Mr . Alderman Rose said it was the duty of the City Remembrancer to make proper arrangements on such occasions ; and then the Alderman , with a hitrh sense of politeness , observed that he saw Air . Corrie at the banquet , and he had no doubt that gentleman got a good dinner Mr . Corrie said the fault lay in too many people being invited , and .

as to Mr . Hose ' s observation , he replied that he got no dinner at all . Kothiii-r conclusive wits arrived at in the discussion , except that ihe arrangements were really very bad . It has been resolved that tbe fever-stricken Atrato shall go into quarantine for three days . For some days past there have been rumours of a quarrel , which led to blows , between Mr . Reardon , M . 1 ' 7 . ami Air . Harvey Wadgo . On thc 13 th inst . the affair came under the notice of the magistrate at the

Marylebone Police-court . A summons had been obtained by Mr . AA ' acb'e atrainst Mr . Reardon for an assault , and the ease was to have been heard . It was stated , however , that Mr / Reardon was in Ireland , and that he had gone there before the summons was issued . The mag istrate said another summons must be issued , and , if Mr . Reardon did not appear to thai , then a warrant would be issued for his apprehension . Hie persons charged with systematically

victimising AA est-end silk mercers wore again brought beforo the Marlborough Police-court magistrate . It appears that the principal actor in these cleverly-carried-on proceedings , Charles Wright , has been several times convicted , and has spent three years in a reformatory , seemingly to no good purpose . The number of victims has been materially added to since the first hearing of the case . It will at all events be some consolation to the

fleeced silk mercers to hear that their rather too frequent customer , AA right , has been committed for trial on tlie three charges preferred against him , and that his accomplices have been dealt with iu tho same manner for receiving some of the stolen silk . It was stated iu court that several other charges can be brought against the silkloving AA ' right . There were oue or two noteworthy points in the speech made by Lord Carnarvon in reply to tho deputation of the

Aborigines Protection Society which waited upon him on the 13 th inst . He first of all recognised the value of the services whicli the French Protestant missionaries have rendered to the cause of civilisation aud Christianity hy their labours among the Basutos , and promised that the Government would do its best to prevent their expulsion by the Boers . In the next place , ho intimated that the negotiations having for their object the cession of the Hudson ' s Bay

territory to Canada were now likely to approach a satisfactory termination , and that the suggestion made to him to the effect that steps should be taken to cxtinquish the Indian title by equitable compensation should receive his best consideration . The representation of the County AA ' aterford is to be contested . On the 1-ith inst . Air . Edward do la Poer issued au address asking thc votes of the electors as a Liberal . He is to be supported

by all the Catholic clergy . His opponent will be Captain Talbot , who formerly represented the county . In the Bail Court , on the l'lth inst ., Air . Justice Blackburn took a strong course with a witness who was also defendant in a suit . The action had been brought against this man , whose name is Packer , to recover £ 200 , ivhich had been entrusted to him for investment . He got into the box , and made certain statements as to the money , after ivhich the jury found for the plaintiffs . Upon this Mr . Justice Blackburn committed

Packer fur trial for perjury . Air . James Frecling AVilkinson , late manager of the Joint Stock Discount Company , was brought up again at the Mansion House , charged with appropriating to his own use two cheques ivhich belonged to the company . The cheques , ono of ivhich was for £ 860 , had been paid to Messrs . Capper , Escombc i and Lawson , sharebrokers , in payment of a sum due by Air . AVilkinson to them , in the books of tho Joint Stock Discount Company

the cheques were entered as having been lent to Messrs . Capper and Co . In tlie course of his examination it was stated that Messrs . Capper and Co . had had loans from the Joint Stock Discount Company , but it was strongly denied that these cheques had anything to do with any such transaction . Air . AA ilkinson was further remanded , and it was stated that another charge would at the next hearing be preferred against him . The libel case , in which the Queen

Insurance Company were thc plaintiffs , and Mr . Irving Scott , proprietor of the . He-porter newspaper , the defendant , came again on forbearing at the Guildhall Police-court this week . The legal gentleman representing the Company announced that ho had obtained an apology from Air . Scott , and also that Air . Scott had undertaken to insert it several times in the Reporter , ancl to take other steps to make his retractation public . This satisfied tho Company , and the

summons was withdrawn- The adjourned inquest on the bodies of the children of Mr . Lazarus , the clothier , of the Iiampstcad-road .-iviio wor : suifoeated last week iu a fire on his premises , has been resumed . At the first sitting it was alleged that the lives of the children might have been saved had not the police prevented persons from going to their assistance- On the Idtli inst . evidence of tho same kind was given ; but a mass of contradictory testimony was

otl ' ered . Tim .- ' , a man named Reading had previously declared that he saved the lives of two children ; whereas now another man , named Marshall , came forward ancl declared that it was he who brought down the children who were saved , and that they were three , and not two . His evidence was contradicted in several minor points . Only one thing was plain as the result of the statements of the witnesses—namely , that everything was in a state of great confusion at the time . The inquest was further adjourned .