The Week.

was interesting It is satisfactory to learn that there is this week a decrease in the virulence of the cholera in the East of London . From various sources we have the intelligence that the deaths are much fewer and tho attacks less in number . Southampton , too , is reported now to be free from the disease . An action was tried at Guildford on the 10 th inst ., which was instructive in so far as

it revealed the interior of a bank amalgamation . Mr . Hartland , formerly manager of tbe Exchange Bank , brought an action against the bank for damages for wrongful dismissal . The bank took over the business of the defunct Hamburgh ancV London Bank , and Mr . Hartland was appointed manager , at a salary of £ 1 , 000 a year ancl commission . Tie complains tha }

the directors , instead of attending to the legitimate business of the concern , were always discussing amalgamations , against which he protested . One of these amalgamations was with a concern called the Estates Bank , which was in reality part of a building society . Por that business and its branches a total sum of £ 37 , 110 was paid by the Exchange Bank , that amount

being entered in the accounts as preliminary expenses ; out of this sum Mr . Horner , who had been manager of the Estates Bank , received £ 1 , 000 , ancl Mr . J . O . Lever £ 2 , 000 , and some person whose name was left blank , £ 2 , 000 . Mr . Hartland told Mr . Horner that the arrangement was commercially dishonest * and another was proposod which he thought equally

objectionable . Tho result was that the Exchange Bank got into difficulties . Mr . Hartland was summarily dismissed , ancl Mr . Horner appointed manager in his place . Soon afterwards the concern closed its doors , and is now in progress of liquidation . The jury gave Mr . Hartland £ 880 damages . The visit ofthe Prince and Princess of Wales to York has been attended with festivities of more than usual brilliancy . On the 10 th inst ., the

Prince uncovered the Prince Consort memorial window in the Guildhall , and in the evening a ball was given in his honour . But the great feature was the illuminations , which , owing to the picturesque character of the old city , were moro than usually effective . On the 11 th inst ., the Prince reviewed the Volunteers . The spectacle was very brilliant . There has been a collision at the Xtchingfield junction of the London and Brighton

Railway . A train from London-bridge to Portsmouth and Littlehampton ran into an up-train just as it was crossing the main line to get upon the Steyning and Henfield line . The fireman of the up-train , a man named John Snatt , was killed , and several passengers were hurt . Fortunately the up-train was a very light one . No intelligible reason for the occurrence of the

accident is given . At the Central Criminal Court on the 13 th inst ., Henry Chambers , a blacksmith , of Maidstone , was put upon his trial for wilful and corrupt perjury committed before an election committee of the House of Commons . When before the committee Chambers swore to acts of bribery on tbe part of Messrs . Lee and Whatman , the sitting members for

Maidstone , which , if true , would have not only lost those gentlemen their seats , but laid them open to prosecutions for corrupt practices . The committee did not believe Chambers , and be was ordered to be prosecuted for perjury . Messrs . Lee and Whatman both swore that the statements the prisoner had made before the committee were false . Witnesses were

called for the defence , and at the end the jury returned a verdict of not guilty . The inquest on the body of the poor fellow Snatt , who was killed by the railway collison at the Itchingtield junction of the London & Brighton line was opened on the 13 th instant , at Horsham . Tbe jury were conveyed to Itchingfield junction , and inspected the signals . Several witnesses were subsequently examined , including the driver ,

fireman , and guard of the train which was run into . It was stated that all the trains were late in starting from London Bridge on that day in consequence of new signals having been put up . The inquest was adjourned . -The police have made a great haul of stolen property in a house in the Waterloo-road . On tbe 13 th inst . a black bag was stolen from a cab at Newington , ancl a policeman to whom information was given

succeeded in discovering the lad who had stolen the bag . He said he had sold it for six shillings to a man in the Waterlooroad , and pointed out the bouse where the man lived . It was a L-rothel at 13 , Wellington-terrace . The police got in ; found the bag and its contents , and also found a great quantity of valuable goods . These were evidently the produce of many

robberies . The man ancl his wife , who keep the house , were taken into custody , and are remanded to give time for the identification of the property found . At the Bankruptcy Court on the 14 th inst ., while a witness was under examination , a policeman entered , and taking him by the shoulder , told him he was " wanted " for embezzlement . It was contended that

the witness was under the protection of the court , and the policeman was told that ho would be committed for contempt if be persisted in the arrest . The policeman did not seem to care much for this , and Commissioner Holroyd was consulted . Tlie Commissioner declined to interfere , and the policeman carried off his prisoner , totally disregarding a threat that his

conduct should be reported to Colonel Eraser . The individual who was hauled so unceremoniously out , was , it seems , a Mr-Charles Holland . He was arrested on a charge of stealing some bills of exchange and embezzling two small sums of money . The person accusing him was the Mr . Dover whose case was being heard in bankruptcy when the arrest took place . On the 15 th inst . Mr . Holland was brought up

at the Guildhall Police-court to answer the charges . Those relating to bill-stealing were withdrawn , having admittedly no foundation ; ancl Alderman Gabriel , who presided , after he had heard the evidence , dismissed the case , expressing the opinion that the charges had been made to serve a purpose . Edwin Brown , the signalman at the Borough-road Station of the London , Chatham , and Dover Railway , who , having got

drunk , caused a collision at the Elephant and Castle Station n the 13 th inst ., was brought up again at the Southwark Policecourt . The evidence adduced fully proved the culpability of the prisoner , aud his advocate could only ask that he might be dealt with summarily . With this application the magistrate declined to comply , and committed the prisoner for trial . A

horrible tragedy has been enacted in Bethnal Green . A man named George Moyce cut his wife ' s throat and afterwards his own . The woman got out into the street screaming for help , and the people coining to her assistance carried her off to the London Hospital , where , it is hoped , she will recover . Moyce had so injured himself that he is dead .

FOEEIG-N IOTELLIQ-ESCB . —There seems to be an impression that the difficulties between Austria and Italy are likely to he surmounted . Ou the Oth inst . a further truce of twenty-four hours was agreed upon . The Paris Bourse grew brighter on re . ceipt of the news , and great confidence was felt that the two Powers will be able to come to an agreement . This impression

received confirmation by an announcement in the Moniteurdu Soir that the Italians had evacuated the Tyrol ancl retired the line stipulated by the Austrians—namely , below the Taglia '< mento . This was stated in the Nazione to be a strategic move rnent merely . It does not seem , however , that Medici with his force has fallen back in the least from tho position he had taken up on the road near Trent . The Italians are stated