The Week.

that the Government had promised to support a motion for a select committee to inquire into the subject . He should therefore postpone the second reading of the bill for a fortnight , and in the meantime move for a select committee . Mr . Newdegate , of course , spoke , and Mr . AVhalley very much wished to make an oration ; but the Speaker insisted that he was out of order .

Finally he was silenced , and the bill was postponed . On the 15 th inst ., the House was engaged in a long discussion on the Sunday Trading Bill , the second reading of which was moved by Mr . T . Hughes . The bill prohibited the sale of articles on Sundays , except such as are perishable and cooked , and confined the sale of those articles to certain hours in the morning .

He remarked that the practice of Sunday trading had become intolerable in Lambeth , and nine-tenths at least of those engaged in trade were anxious that the bill should pass . The bill was opposed by Mr . Freshfield , and described by him as a wolf in sheep ' s clothing . It might be considered , he said , a bill for licensing Sunday trading , and therefore he moved that it be read

a second time that day six months . A discussion took place , in which several hon . members joined , including Mr . Walpole and Mr . Henley . The objections were all based upon the same ground as that taken by Mr . Freshfield . Eventually the bill was read a second time , it being understood that many amendments of it would be proposed in committee . —Another

discussion took place on the Grand Juries ( Ireland ) Bill , whicli was finally read a second time . Colonel French postponed his Irish Reform Bill for three weeks , to give time for the introduction of the Government Bill . Several other measures were advanced

a stage . 'GENERAL HO _ _ NEWS . —A painful caso was hoard at tho AVestminster Police-court on tho 10 th inst . Col . Nugent , 7 M . 7 P for Longford , appeared against his son , Robert Southwell Groville-Nugont , whom he charged with threatening to shoot him . Tho young man complained that ho had boon driven to desperation by tho refusal of his father to do anything for him . Colonel

Greville-Nugont , however , told a very different tale . Ho showed tbat many attempts had been made to induce tho young man to lead a reputable life , but without success . Young Grevillo-Nugont was ordered to find security to keep tho peace , and in default was sent to p rison . A strange affair was mentioned at tho Guildhall Police-court . Alderman Roso handed tho Chief Clerk

a letter he had received from a Mr . Edward Schneider , informing him that ho had secured him six shares in tho "Now Grand Austrian Stato Loan Distribution of ± 00 , 000 , 000 florins , " and requesting a remittance of £ o to pay for thorn . Tho worthy Alderman declared ho had never agreed to take those shares ,

that he know nothing about thorn , and yet that was tho second application ho had had for the monoy . Two tailors , named William Jolly and John Hall , woro brought up at tho Marlborough Police-court , charged with conspiring with other persons to intimidate a tailoress , MargaretRottorbury , with tho object of forcing her to leave her employment . Tho accused formed a portion of a " picket" party . Their business seems to havo been to keep a

watch on Mr . Bowater ' s tailoring establishment in Hanover-street . Hanover-square . The prosecutrix is in Mr . Bowater ' s employment . Sho appears to have boon watched , followed , and threatened . After listening to a good deal of evidence , Mr . Knox came to tho conclusion that it was a caso that should go beforo a judge and jury , and ho committed tho accused for trial at tho

Central Criminal Court . James Erasmus Bartlett , the warohousoman charged with stealing over £ 800 from his employers , Messrs . Fry and Son , chocolate manufacturers , City-road , was again brought beforo Mr . Barker , at the Clorkenwoll Policecourt . Some additional evidence was adduced , and tho prisoner was committed for trial . Tho charge of perjury against Mr .

Elsworthy , a solicitor , underwent another hearing at the Guildhall Polico-court . It will bo romomberod that tho charge arose out of a caso tried at tho Central Criminal Court , which resulted in tho conviction of Mr . Thomas Cannon , a reporter , for having mado a false affidavit . Mr . Cannon now maintains that he was wrongfully convicted , owing to false allegations , which ho alleges

Mi : Elsworthy mado . Alderman Finnis , tho presiding magistrate , did not consider tho charge as proven , and dismissed the summons . Mr . Cannon , notwithstanding , took advantage of his legal right , and had himself bound over to prosecute . . The Prince of AVales has gone to the Paris Exhibition . He left London on the 10 th inst ., and crossed to Calais iu the midst of

a thunderstorm . His Royal Highness will remain in Paris several days . A horrible affair occurred at Hoxton on the 11 th inst . A woman , who gave the name of Mary Jane Fletcher , was engaged as a servant on the Thursday previous by the landlady of a tavern in AVhitmore-road . The woman represented herself as being a married person , and stated that

she had been deserted fey her husband . On the night of the 11 th inst . a man having the appearance of a sailor entered the house and inquired for Mary Jane Fletchei-. He was shown into the kitchen , where she was at the time . In a minute or two afterwards pistol-shots were heard , and on the inmates entering the kitchen , they were horrified to find both the man

and the woman lying on the floor dead . The man bad shot the woman , who was his wife , and then killed himself . An important forgery case was partly heard at the Mansion House on the 13 th inst . A young Frenchman , named Edouard de A illars , was charged with forging a bill of exchange for £ 1 , 210 . The prisoner bad been in business with a Mr . Edgley , in Sermon-lane ., Mr . Edgley jirofessed to have bought a forest in Servia , and alleged that a company had been

formed to cut timber in the said forest and bring it to this country . Bills of exchange for over £ 120 , 000 on behalf of this company wore sot afloat , and most of thorn woro discounted by tho Leeds Banking Company , of which Mr . Greenland was tho manager . It is alleged that no company existed , and that the bills woro forgeries . Tho caso was only partly gone into , and was then remanded . Eleanor Boll , tho woman who cut the throat

of her little boy at Deptford , was brought up at tho Greenwich Polico-court , and charged with murder . The ease was very clearly mado out , and thoro was good roason to bolievo that tho unfortunate woman was not sano when sho committed the offence . Sho was committed for trial . Tho construction ol tho now street from Blackfriars to the Mansion Houso will occasion a

largo number of evictions in a district which , if not densely populated , at all ovonts affords shelter to numei ous families of tho poorer classes . Tho hardship which will bo entailed upon these unfortunate persons , and especially upon tho small shopkeepers , was represented to Sir John Thwaitos , on the 14 th inst ., by an influential deputation . Sir John listened with great

attention and sympathy to tho statements which were mado , but pointed out that tho Metropolitan Board . of Works had no power to award compensation in such cases without tho authorit y of Parliament . Ho intimated that if any means could bo discovered hy which tho Board might ho legally justified in making compensation , tho monoy for that purpose , would be cheerfully voted .

Thoso who havo taken up tho causo of tho evicted poor aro making their influence felt . A decision of some interest in connection with trades' unions was given in tho Bail Court on tho I-fth inst . Thoro was somo time sinco , at Bridgwater , a strike of tho carpenters in tho employment of a builder named Kitch . Mr . Kitch employed a man named Jordan , who was not a member of the carpenters' union , and tho strike was in effect a refusal on tho part of tho men to work with him . Ono of them ,