The Week.

be called upon to resign their situations . The master of the workhouse is censured , aud reminded that he will for the future be held responsible for the management of the infirmary as well as for the other parts of the house . An inquiry has been opened at the St . Pancras Workhouse into the treatment which two pauper inmates of the house had received from the master .

The inquiry , which was conducted by Mr . Farnall , was instituted iu consequence of letters written by the paupers themselves complaining that they had been confined for a month in an offensively-smelling and unhealthy ward , without being allowed any exercise whatever . The master and doctor of the workhouse were examined yesterday-, after which the inquiry was

adjourned . —•—A singular case of dispute between two clergymen has occupied the attention of the Court of Queen's Bench . The Rev . Mr . Haslewood , formerly incumbent of St . Mark's , Marylebone , agreed to exchange livings with tho Rev . Mr . Widrington , of St . Michael's , Coventry , on certain representations being made as to the value of the livings . Mr . Haslewood

now alleges that Mr . Widrington deceived him as to the value of the Coventry living , and he seeks for compensation . The Lord Chief Justice regretted that the case could not be settled out of court , but the defendant declined to accede to the suggestion . Sir Thomas Staples , who is described as the last surviving member of the Irish House of Commons , died at

Dublin the other day . He was in his 90 th year . Eight men were apprehended at Dewsbury on Friday week , on a charge of being participators in the riotous proceedings which appear to have prevailed in that town for two or three days , and which have been of a more serious character than any that have occurred since the memorable " plug " riots , when the district was in a state of anarchy . On Saturday last the magistrates committed seven of the men

for trial at Ydrk assizes , at the same time refusing bail . Matthews , the cabman , of Midler notoriety , has again been before the Bankruptcy Court petitioning for his discharge . The creditors opposed on the ground that he had prevented the 1001 . awarded to him by the North London Railway Company from coming into their hands . Matthews replied that as the creditors had got 200 L of the reward , they might well afford to

let him keep this sum . It was at last agreed that the money should be paid over to an officer of the court , but Matthews was remanded once more . The woman Banks , who was so shockingly injured by her husband at Whitecross-street , St . Luke's , last week , has so recovered as to be able to make a deposition . The Lord Mayor , therefore , proceeded to St . Bartholomew's

Hospital , where the woman was lying , and her husband having also been brought there , the woman was sworn , and deposed that she had had a quarrel with her husband on the ni ght in question . She could not remember anything about the blows being inflicted , but there was nobody present except herself and her husband , and she was quite sure she did

not inflict the wounds herself . The prisoner did not deny the crime . On Saturday night warrants were issued for the apprehension of Mr . William Whelon , a borough magistrate and ex-Mayor of Lancaster , on a charge of stealing 100 share certificates , the property of the ( Little ) North-Western Railway Company , of which he was secretary . Mr .

Whelon had , however , disappeared , and on the following day his body was found in the water near Fleetwood . A man named Robert Willis was brought up at the Worship-street Police-court on Monday charged with attempting to murder Charles Turner . The prisoner seems to have . entertained a strong dislike of Turner , and on Saturday night hist beat him about the head with a hammer while he was asleep in bed . Turner ' s life is in danger . The prisoner was remanded .

The Week.

Two serious railway accidents occurred on Monday evening . At the Nine Elms station of the South-Western Railway a . Twickenham passenger train was wrongly shunted , and ran into a goods train . Several persons were most seriously injured . At tho Great Western Railway station , at Paddiugton , a wall fell into the road , under the pressure of coals . Two men were seriously hurt , and Captain Charles Newbury , who was passing ,

and was buried under the coals , is not expected to survive . Inquests have been held on the body of Mr . W . D . Wills , a well-known and highly-respected citizen of Bristol , who was run over by an omnibus when crossing Holborn-hill on Thursday last . The unfortunate gentleman underwent amputation at St . Bartholomew's hospital , but he sank under the shock , and died

on Saturday . The evidence clearly showed that no one w as to blame , and a verdict of " accidental death" was returned . — On a young woman who v . 'as drowned out of a boat near Blackwall . The waterman Nolan , who was with her , in the boat , was examined , and declared that he could not account for her disappearance . The coroner did not appear to consider his evidence

very straightforward , and the jury returned an open verdict . —In the case of a little boy who had been bitten by a dog about three months ago . The wound had healed up , and the circumstance was almost forgotten , when a few days ago symptoms appeared which at first excited fears of its being a case of Russian pestilence , till the malady became more developed and

tho bite was recollected . The jury returned a verdict of Death from Hydrophobia . —On the body of a woman named Costello , when evidence was given , as before the police magistrate , tending to show that tho woman had been trhottled . The inquest

was adjourned for the attendance of the prisoner . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The Emperor Napoleon arrived at Oran on Sunday evening , and met with a magnificent and enthusiastic reception . An address , professing to emanate from the native populations , has been published in the Algerian papers , in which a protest is entered against the allegation that

they are personally hostile to tho French colonists or inimical to the French rule . With a firm reliance on the Emperor's sense of justice , they love and esteem the French . The new French loan of 360 millions for public works is anything but well received , and promises to give rise to a stormy debate in the Chambers , where it is quite as unpopular as with the masses

out of doors . The projected sale of Crown property in order to raise the money is considered to be specially objectionable . INDIA AND CHINA . —The Calcutta and China mail has not brought any news of much interest from India or China . The Australian advices state that the Legislative Council of Victoria was likely to reject the protective tariff proposed by the Ministry , which intended , however , to incorporate the tariff with the Appropriation Hill , in the hope of cowing the

Legislative Council by the dread of a financial aud administrative deadlock . NEW ZEALAND . —The intelligence from New Zealand contains the satisfactory announcement that parties of friendly Maoris had successfully encountered bands of insurgents . But at a place called Opotiki the Maoris had murdered a missionary named Volkner with cannibal atrocity , had made captive another missionary and several other Englishmen , and had destroyed a schooner .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

J . P . S . —It is understood that the hall is to be completed in February next . OBSERVER is altogether out in his recokoning . P . M . —Certainly not . Wo are astonished that a brother signing himself as a P . M . is evidently unacquainted with the leading principles laid down in the Book of Constitutions . J . J . —We cannot spare the time to answer every trivial question by letter , and in tho present instance it is too trivial to be even mentioned in our Answers to Correspondents .