The Week.

their room , and it was subsequently discovered that vi right had murdered the woman . The murderer quietly gave himself tip to the police , and has already been tried and sentenced to death . The trial of George Victor Townley , for the murder of Miss Goodwin , of AVigwell Hall , was brought to a close , at Derby , on Saturday . The Jury , after a few minutes' deliberation , found tbe prisoner guilty , and he was sentenced to death—Mr .

Baron Martin stating that he " entirely concurred" in the verdict . ——At the Central Criminal Court F . G . Hartley , soldier , has been found guilty of forging and uttering a bill of exchange for £ 1000 on the Marquis of Anglesea . Sentence was deferred . Richard Barlow , convicted of having a die for coining in his possession , was sentenced to eight years' penal servitude , and

George Fass and William Grant , found guilty of burglary , were sentenced to six years penal servitude . At Leeds , on the 22 nd of August last , a labourer named Hirley , rushed , without any provocation , upon a man named 'Anthony Golding , and stabbed him in the thigh , inflicting a wound which soon afterwards proved fatal . Hirley has been tried on a charge of

murder at York , and the judge , in summing up , told the jury that " if the prisoner intended to inflict grievous bodily harm , that wouldbemurder andnot manslaughter . " The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder , but they stated that they had arrived at this decision solely in consequence of bis lordship's interpretation of the law . They further urged that this was not a case which

¦ called for the extreme penalty ofthe law , and expressed a desire that the learned judge would make a representation to that effect to Sir George Grey . Mr . Justice Mellor reminded the jury that they had nothing to do with the punishment , and that their sole duty was to act upon the law of the land . The learned judge then sentenced the prisoner to death , warning him not to buoy himself up with the hope that the

recommendation of the jury would have any effect . A shocking discovery has been made at Flushing . For upwards of twenty years , it seems , a poor idiot has been confined in a loathsome cell at the house of his brother . Heartrending cries and howls have been repeatedly heard by the neighbours , especially on cold winter nights ; but , although the sympathy of many was aroused , no one deemed it his duty

to inquire into the circumstances of the case , not dreaming , probably , of the horrors that were to be revealed . Fortunately a stranger sojourning at the place recently heard of the wretched man ' s fate , and communicated with Sir George Grey on the subject . Two commissioners were at once sent down from London , and the idiot ' s prison-house was entered on

Thursday week . The sight which met their gaze was too revolting to be described ; and the commissioners are said to have declared that " in an experience of forty years they never met with a case so painful . " The inquest on the bodies of the unfortunate men who were killed by the fall of the public-house at Islington , has been

brought to a conclusion , when the jury , after considerable deliberation , returned a verdict of " Accidental death , " to which was appended a severe censure on the architect ., whose defective plans , it was said , were the cause of the accident . The verdict , it ought to be added , was not unanimous , and the foreman of the jury was in the minority . Another of the dangerous

nuisances to which the London population is subjected , has been brought to the notice of Mr . Dayman , before whom a young gentleman , aged eighteen , was taken for discharging shot from a catapult to tbe danger of the public . Several windows had been broken by the practice , and more than one case of personal injury had occurred . The magistrate inflicted a fine of 40 s . Lord Leitrim has been cast in damages to the amount of £ 100 by a Dublin jury , for a libel on Mr . Studdert , a sub-inspector

of constabulary . It seems that the noble defendant , who appears to have been a good deal troubled with threatening notices , received one of these missives some time ago , and at once assumed that it was written by Studdert . He sent a series of letters to Dublin Castle on the subject , but the authorities there , finding that there was no evidence to substantiate so grave

an accusation , declined to comply with his demand that Studdert should be "brought to justice . " These letters contained the libel which formed the subject of the trial . The metropolis is unusually healthy at this time of the year . The deaths in the last week amounted to 1357 , which was 77 "below the average of the corresponding week during the last

ten years , the average mortality being 1131 . The births exceeded the deaths by 713 , and were higher by 172 than the average of births for the last ten years . An extraordinary accident occurred on tbe North-Eastern Railway near Copmanthorpe on Tuesday morning . A number of carriages , forming part of the early Government train from York to Hull and

Leeds , broke loose , and rolled down an embankment . The carriages contained some fifty passengers , but not a life was lost ; nor , indeed , does it appear that anyone was dangerously injured . A . most distressing accident has occurred on the river Ribble . On Tuesday , three daughters and two sons of a Mr . Sugars , of Manchester , accompanied hy a brother and sister

of the name of Wilson , left Lytham in a boat for a short excursion on the river . The boat was allowed to drift up with the tide as far as Preston , whence a telegram was sent to Lytham stating that the party intended to set out at once on their return . They never , however , returned . The boat was found the next morning on a sand-bank about two miles from Lytham , and near it was discovered the lifeless body of one of the Misses Sugars . There can be little doubt

that the remaining six have also perished . Police-Sergeant Caffrey , of Leigh , was tried at the Liverpool assizes on Wednesday , on a charge of having caused the death of a man , named Stone . It may be remembered that Stone , who was drunk at the time , was creating a disturbance in the street , and that after some struggling he was dragged by Caffrey to the police station , where he soon afterwards died . The

allegation was that death was produced by the violence used by Caffrey ; but the jury acquitted the prisoner . An inquest has been opened on the body of a woman named Blarras , who died a few days ago in . strong convulsive fits , which it was supposed mig ht have arisen from the administration of aconite . Suspicion has fallen upon a man named Becchev , with whom she

cohabited ; but it is fair to say that beyond the fact of his having been with hor before she became ill , there is nothing to implicate him , nor was there any trace of poison discovered in the the body on a post mortem examination . The inquiry was adjourned . Stackyard burning has become alarmingly frequent on the Yorkshire AVolds . Hardly a night occurs in which one

or more incendiary fires are not discovered—seldom in time to save tbe property . If we are to trust the confessions of some miscreants whoVere caught in one case , the criminals appear to be boys who set fire to the stacks in the mere wantonness of malice . FOREIGN INTEELIQ-EXCE . —It is officially stated that the result

of the voting in the Paris election was for M . Pelletan , Opposition candidate , 15 , 115 ; and for M . Picard , the Government candidate , 9778 . Tbe Monileur has published the replies of Prussia , the Pope , Hanover , and Bavaria to the Emperor's invitation to a Congress . The King of Prussia declares himself ready to participate in a Congress in order to effect any necessary mollification in the treaties of 1815 , which , however , be considers still to be the foundation of tho political edifice on