The Week.

Head Centre in Ireland , has been arrested . He does not seem to have ' gone far away from Dublin . He was captured on Saturday morning last in a house which he had taken under the name of Herbert in the suburbs of Dublin . Three other men were also arrested in the same house . The prisoners were brought up at the police-court in the course of tbe day , and remanded , Stephens rather ostentatiously declaring that he

would not employ any attorney "in this matter . " On Friday week the Dublin court held arguments for and against tlie motion by the Attorney-General that the proceedings against the Lord-Lieutenant should be stayed . The argument ; for the Government was that the action of the Lord-Lieutenant was tbe action of tho State , and therefore not to be impeached in

the law courts . Judgment was reserved . An episode in the hearing is worth notice . One of the counsel for Luby , the plaintiff , in the course of his speech mentioned with praise the name of Thomas Addis Emmett . The reference was loudly cheered by the audience ; whereupon the Chief Justice ordered the court to be cleared . Judgment was given in the Dublin

Court of Queen ' s Bench on Saturday last , on tbe application on behalf of the Fenian prisoners for a rule for a criminal information against Sir J . Gray , M . P ., the proprietor of tha Freeman . The plaintiffs charged that they had been libelled in the Freeman by the insertion of the reports of their cases at the policecourt , by leading articles , and by the publication of certain

passages in a pastoral letter of Dr . Cullen ' s . The court unanimously granted the conditional order as to the leading articles , and the pastoral letter , but refused it in reference to the policecourt reports . The Lord Chief Justice , Justice Fitzgerald , and Justice O'Brien held that newspapers were privileged to publish police reports , while Mr . Justice Hayes held they were not , and would havo granted a conditional

order in reference to the police reports also . Tbe Cattle Plague Commissioners have come to the conclusion that the disease is identical with the Steppe murrain , and that ifc is contagious . - They recommend that all removals of cattle to markets or fairs should for the present be stopped except when the animal was to be sold to be killed . Then it should be removed under licence , and butchers should be compelled to

slaughter the animal within a given time . No animal sent to a fair or market should be allowed to leave the borough where the fair is held alive . The commissioners would isolate infected districts as far as possible . They think the power given to inspectors to order the slaughter of animals attacked by the disease might bo withdrawn . As to foreign cattle , ifc is

recommended that they should be slaughtered at the ports of landing ; and , further , that cattle should bo allowed to be landed at certain ports only . As the disease has not appeared in Ireland , these measures are not recommended for adoption there ; but strong measures of precaution are suggested . Earl Spencer , Viscount Cranbourne , Mr . Read , and Dr . Bence Jones

do not agree with the ' proposal to stop all movements of cattle in Great Britain , on the ground that it is impracticable . Mr . M'Clcan also objects to all interference with tbe traffic in cattle . ——The Irish judges on Monday gave judgment in the case of Luby « . the Lord-Lieutenant . They decided that no action could be maintained against the

Lord-Lieutenant in his official capacity , and the writ was ordered to be taken off tbe file . Ifc is stated that two detectives were fired at by some person in a public thoroughfare in Dublin ou Sunday evening . One of tbem was slightly wounded . The coroner for Westminster held an . inquest on Monday on , the body of John Morris , a tailor , who was found dead under the dark arches of the Adelphi . The deceased had been tipsy , and it is supposed that he fell dour , tlie steps near to the

arches-One of the jurymen severely animadverted on the condition of these arches , aud said the place was a disgrace to the metropolis . In the Court of Admiralty the Queen ' s Advocate has recently applied to the judge to fix a date for hearing the long-delayed Bonda and Kirwee prize-money case , which involves the distribution of a sum amounting to half a million sterling . A great array of

counsel appeared , and after a discussion as to the character of the documents whicli should be published , the hearing was fixed for the Sth of January . In the Court of Chancery , Vice-Cbancellor Kindersley has disallowed a claim made by Messrs . Prainge and Co . against the Leeds Banking Company , in respect of two dishonourable bills of exchange . The claim had been

resisted by the official liquidator on tbe ground that insufficient notice of the dishonour had been given ; and , as will be seen from the report , the case involved some important and obscure questions of law . ——James Murphy , who is charged with attempting to murder a young woman named Jennings , in Covent-garden , has been brought up again at Bow-street .

Tbe young woman had so far recovered from her injuries that she could give evidence , and after hearing her statement , the prisoner was committed for trial . The case of Mr . Meade , who was treated most harshly by a detective at the Crystal Palace , has gone into at the Lambeth Police-court . Warren , the detective , was put into the dock and charged with excess of

duty in having marched him to a station-house and searched him there . Warren wished to apologise ; but Inspector Dunlop , of the P division of police , said that for a constable to consent to publish an apology was contrary to the regulations of the force , and he must therefore object to Warren making such an apology . The case went on , and the magistrate convicted Warren , who was'lined 40 s . and costs . A . deputation from the parish of St .

Sepulchre have waited upon the Home Secretary in reference to the delay of the Corporation in making the dead meat market in Sniithfield . The deputation complained strongly of the dilafcoriiiess of the Corporation , and urged Sir George Grey to take steps to compel the speedy construction of the market . Sir Geo . asked that he should be furnished with full information on the subject , and promised to give ifc his mosfc careful consideration .

Tlie vestries and district boards of the metropolis are taking alarm at a circular which has been issued from the Home-office , asking for information and suggestions in reference to a consolidated board for the management of the metropolis . The St . Pancras vestry yesterday was the scene of a discussion on the subject . Any centralising project was denounced , and a

committee was ordered to consider what steps should be taken to prevent the vestries and local boards from being abolished . The case of Charlotte Winsor was mentioned in the Court of Queen ' s Bench . This woman remains now under sentence of death for child murder . She was put upon her trial at one assizes , and tbe jury were

dismissed without agreeing to a verdict . At the next assizes she was again put upon her trial for the same offence and found guilty . Ifc is argued that , as the jury in the first case were discharged without coming to a verdict , she could not bo legally put upon her trial again , and that therefore she has been wrongfully convicted . This is the point which will have to be

decided by the judges . The counsel on behalf of the convict wished to have the record amended in certain particulars . Decision on the matter was reserved . Mr . Arnold , the magistrate at the Westminster Police court , listened very patiently to a long and painful story told by an old soldier calling himself the Marquis de St . Maurice . The old gentleman said he had been in the service of the East India Company , and when lieutenant became insane from sun-stroke . He was sent to the Company's