The Week.

and she will probably turn up again at no distant date . It seems that on the return of the steamer Alar to Plymouth , after having transferred a large quantity of "hardware" to the Virginia , the Custom-house authorities instituted an inquiry into the matter . The result of the investigation was that the steamer was allowed to leave the port on Saturday afternoon . It is stated that the Alar discharged her cargo into the Virginia

in a creek on tho French coast . A terrible accident has happened at a powder mill at Ewell , Surrey . An explosion has not only committed great havoc as regards property , but the lives of three working men have been sacrificed . The cause of the calamity wi'l probably never be known , but , as far as facts have yet transpired , there apjiears to be no blame attachable to any

ono . ——A horrible murder has been committed iu a house of ill fame in Bloomsbury . The murdered young woman is said to be named Jackson , an unfortunate , but , for her class , a wellbehaved person . The murderer 'has escaped . Dr . Lankester held an inquest on Saturday on the body of the young woman . The brother of the deceased identified the body , and the surgeon

described the nature of the wounds , two of which , he said , were sufficient of themselves to cause death . There were five wounds in all . The servant in this den of iniquity who admitted the victim ancl her murderer alsc gave evidence , but she could give no description of the parties . One piece of evidence is dwelt upon with some emphasis , that the room where the murder was

committed is separated from another by a thin partition , through which words spoken , even in a moderate tone , can be distinctly heard . This room was occupied at the time of the murder by two young women , who are subpoenaed , but their evidence , if they have any to give , was not taken on Saturday . It is also remarkable that when the two were admitted in the morning the door of their room was fastened from the outside , so that it

is not known how the murderer made his escape . A singular trial for inciting to murder has been before the Dublin Criminal Court . A man named Harcourt was charged by two witnesses with having come to them in Dublin and offered them £ 10 for shooting a gentlemen at Newry , on the plea that he ill-used his wife . The prisoner was sentenced to ten year ' s penal servitude Another shocking death from destitution is recorded .

It was shown that the deceased John Hayes , who was a cane dyer , had latterly been out of employment and in great distress . It transpired , however , that the man had given way to drink . The verdict was to the effect that death resulted from apoplexy , brought on by want of food . Another woman has heen burnt to death through crinoline . She was the wife of a labourer in

Prince ' s-row , Newport Market . The jury returned the now familiar verdict : — "Accidental death by fire . " An inquest has been held on the body of Mr . J . Hardy , an artist , who died in the Middlesex Hospital , consequent on an . accident whicli resulted in fracture of the collar-bone and ultimate death . The evidence showed that deceased had contracted intemperate

habits , and this , combined with the accident , had produced delirium tremens . An inquest has been held respecting the death of Sarah Moore , who , it was alleged , had died of starvation , in the neighbourhood of Bethnal-green . The jury decided that fever was the approximate cause , but that it was accelerated | by long privations and want of proper food . ——The

following executions have taken place : —William Hope , at Hertford , for the murder of Mary . Corbett , a young girl at Ullingswick . ; The crime was one of an atrocious character , and no sympathy was felt in any quarter for the murderer . He confessed his crime . Robert Alexander Burton ( at Maidstone ) , for the murder of a little boy of nine years of age . John Duckyer , of the murder of Elizabeth Tye at Halesworth , at the Suffolk county goal at Ipswich , and'Edward Coope , who

murdered his own son in Shropshire , at Shrewsbury . It appears that the American " green backs " have been thought worth the trouble and risk of forging in this country . An engraver named Hides , and one of his workmen , named Light , have been brought before the Sheffield magistrates on a charge of forging American Government notes . It seems that some months ago the American Ambassador was made aware that a system of

forging the American notes was caraied on here , and that the notes were shipped from this country for circulation across the Atlantic . The matter was put into the hands of the detective police , and the present apprehensions were the result . A gang of receivers of stolen goods in London is being broken up . A man named Yates was convicted in January last of receiving

goods knowing them to be stolen , and his wife gave information which led to the apprehension of Odin Simpson , a fellow who appears to have beeu engaged for years in burglaries and similar offences . He was convicted at the last sessions of the Central Criminal Court . From what was stated at his trial a man named Everett was ordered to be apprehended . This was clone ,

and he has been brought up at the Guildholl Police-court charged with receiving the produce of several robberies . The evidence against him was principally that of Yates ancl his wife . He was remanded for further examination . A stylishly-dressed young fellow , who called himself Henry Bedford , was brought up at AVestminster Police-court , on Wednesday , charged with

obtaining goods under false pretences . He had represented himself to he the Marquis of Ormond , and had victimised several tradesmen . He lived and kept up a considerable establishment in Neville-street , Brompton . Bofore the magistrate he behaved very impudently , ancl declared that he had a property worth £ 4000 a year : This was stated by a gentleman in court to be wholly untrue . On the contrary , the prisoner , who

was the son of a respectable solicitor , had not a shilling . He was remanded . From papers officially published , it appears that Professor Airey , the Astronomer Royal , and Admiral AA ' ashington , of the Admiralty , both object to the lines of railway that are projected to cross Greenwich Park . There are two lines contemplated , -which pass within a few hundred feet ofthe Observatory , and these gentlemen declare that any railway

passing within a 1000 feet of the Observatory would disturb the operations . They , therefore , recommend that both the lines should be opposed . A man named Grierson was shot a few days since in the county of Donegal , and died on Monday ofhis wounds . He was able to identify his assasssin , who had been arrested by the police and was brought into his presence before

he died . The unhappy deceased was making arrangements to emigrate with his family when he was shot . FOREIGN IJHELLIGEITOE . —AVe have various accounts from Poland announcing successes obtained hy the insurgents and the continued spread of the insurrectionary movement . The most important intelligence , however , comes from St .

Petersburgh . On the Russian Easter Sunday , an Imperial manifesto was issued , granting a full ancl entire amnesty to all Poles in the kingdom who shall lay down their arms and return to their allegiance by the 13 th of May . The same term for laying down their arms and giving in their submission is also fixed for the insurgents in the AVestern Polish provinces . The manifesto

also announces that the institutions granted to the Polish people shall be maintained , ancl after practical experience shall be developed according to the necessities of the age and the country . The Polish Revovolution government has issued a proclamation declaring that the insurgents will not lay clown their arms until the independence of Poland shall have been accomplished . All accounts agree in stating that the proffered amnesty has heen a complete failure . The Czas of AVeclnesday