The Week.

paying tbe costs to which the other side had boon put by bis conduct . On Wednesday he again appeared and declined to pay any costs . On this the judge said he must impose the original fine , and it was imposed accordingly . The Westminster Police Magistrate has granted a summons against Mr . Thomas Reynolds , secretary of the "Anti-tobacco Society , "

" for causing to be received , knowing the contents , a letter demanding money , with menaces , without reasonable cause . " It seems that the " Society" has issued placards offering reward s for the conviction of persons found smoking in railway carriages , or in certain railway stations which are named . The other dajja gentleman , named Innes , was smoking on the platform at the

Barnes Station , when a man accosted him and demanded bis name and address . He wrote to the Society on the subject , and received a reply , in which he was informed that it remained with him " whether tbe matter shall be proceeded with or whethcr yon pay the fine ( 40- ? . ) aud avoid the costs and exposure . " ilr . Innes refused , to pay tbe line , and the

magistrate , in granting the summons , said the proceedings of the " Society" looked very much like a system of extortion . ¦ Among tbe cases disposed of at the Manchester Assizes was that of Ann Leslie , who was sentenced to six months' hard labour for sending a threatening letter to Mr . John Whalley , a merchant of this city . At tbe previous assizes Leslie was tried , but

acquitted , on the charge of attempting to shoot Mr . Whalley , who had discarded her after an intimacy of several years . David Goldstone , a cap manufacturer in Hanging Ditch , was sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude , for setting fire to bis warehouse , " with intent to defraud" an insurance company . A woman , named Ami Corrigan , has been apprehended on a charge of poisoning Ann Conway , a middle-aged woman , with whom she appears to have been on intimate terms . Corrigan was

brought before the magistrates on Saturday , and remanded for a week . Mr . John Newton , cotton manufacturer , Preston , John Newton ( his son ) , Messrs . James and William Halliwell , cotton manufacturers , Blackburn , and AVilliam Ainswortb , a broker , have been committed for trial at Preston , on a charge of improperly removing goods , tbe property of the elder Newton's assignees . A warrant has been granted by one of the London

magistrates for the apprehension of a Wiltshire surgeon named Zinzan , who seems , by means of a false declaration , to have succeeded in getting married to his father's widow . On applying for a license he described his stepmother as a spinster , and made the usual declaration that there was no impediment , or kindred , or alliance , or any other lawful cause to bar or hinder

matrimony . Zinzan is said to have left the country . At tbe Central Criminal Court tbe grand jury , having disposed of tbe bills sent to them , made a presentiment setting forth that in tbe district of the Central Criminal Court the functions of the srand jury acted rather as a hindrance than as a help to the punishment of crime , as the police magistrates could and did

make the necessary preliminary examinations of charges much more effectively than they could pretend to do . They , therefore , prayed that the institution might be abolished . A young man named Jackson was indicted for the murder of a fellowworkman named Roberts . It will be remembered that the prisoner and deceased were eir ^ loyed at a working jeweller ' s ,

and were together in the shop after the other workmen had left . The deceased was found nearly insensible , but he intimated that tbe prisoner had assaulted him . He died soon after . The jury found a verdict of Manslaughter , and the judge sentenced him to penal servitude for life . At the Hertford Assizes a young fellow named Savage was tried for a brutal assault and highway robbery , committed on a person for whom he formerly worked . The farmer , whose

name was Barker , was returning home from Hertford market about six o'clock one evening iu the end of October last , when lie was set upon , knocked down , and most unmercifully beaten about the bead by a man whom he believed to be his old servant , and whom be bad formerly been compelled to prosecute for theft . The evidence in other respects was very strong .

The ' prisoner was found Guilty , and sentenced to ¦ 20 years ' penal servitude . At the York Assizes Alice Wilson , charged with the murder of her infant son at Howden , was tried . The trial lasted a long time , and several witnesses were examined . The jury were engaged in deliberation for three hours , and ultimately returned iato court with a verdict of Guilty , but at

tbe same time recommended the prisoner to mercy . Mr . Justice Keating passed on the prisoner sentence of death . Francis Warne , a labouring man , was condemned to death at tbe Chelmsford Assizes for tbe murder of Amelia Blunt , at Chadwell-heath last September . Tbe prisoner and deceased bad once cohabited together , but the woman left him on account of bis

cruelty , and went to live in an old man ' s cottage on the heath , whose son proposed to marry her , and the banns were published . The prisoner , who bad often threatened her for leaving him , called at the cottage at a time when the woman was alone in the cottage washing , and he cut her throat , leaving her hanging over the wash-tub as if still

alive . In that position she was found by tbe old man when he returned to tbe cottage . The evidence against the prisoner was very conclusive , and tbe jury found him guilty after a short deliberation . The prisoner was sentenced to death . Nineteen men were tried togetbev at Stafford on Saturday on charges arising out of the recent colliers' strike in that county . It will be remembered that one method the colliers took to advance their cause was to parade in front of the pits where

men were at work early in the morning , with a view to intimidation . On one of these occasions the police interfered , a fight took place , and these nineteen men were apprehended . Mr . Kenealy , who defended them , took the novel course in a criminal case of entering a demurrer to the evidence in the case of twelve of the prisoners , which the judge , after some hesitation , agreed to accept ; but Mr . Powell , Q . C ., who acted

for the Attorney General , refused to join issue , and the trial went on . All nineteen were found guilty , but at the intercession of the authorities nine only were sentenced to one month ' s hard labour ; the other ten were discharged on their own recognisances . There seems too much reason to fear that the ship Floating Light , from Bombay , with a valuable

cargo , has foundered in the Bristol Channel , and that all hands have perished . Various fragments of the wreck have come ashore upon tbe Pembroke coast , and all point to tbe one iad conclusion . It is possible , though very improbable , that tbe crow , thirty or forty in number , have been picked off the wreck , or have escaped in the ship ' s boats ; but at present the

greatest apprehensions are entertained for their safet y . We understand that insurances on tbe ship ami cargo can no longer be effected . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —M . Moccmard , private secretary to tbe Emperor Napoleon , died on the 9 th inst . In him the Emperor loses what princes rarely possess—a faithful and warm

friend . Throughout the ever-varying fortunes of the Bonaparte family M . Mocquard adhered to its interests with an unwavering tenacity ; and on the elevation of the present ruler of France to the presidency of tbe republic his services were rewarded with the appointment to the post which be filled till his death . The late secretary was addicted to literary pursuits , and produced a few pieces for the stage , which were not altowether unsuccessful . There was a large attendance of the