The Week.

every day from want and disease . The survivors landed at last on an island in the Fiji group , where the natives , apparently under missionary influence , treated them kindly . Belfast is passing through its annual period of party riot and disorder . The disturbances were begun on Monday night week , when a so-called Orange mob burned O'Connell in effigy . This affront to the "Liberator ' s " memory greatly irritated the Roman

Catholics , and the scum of both parties have ever since heen "fighting it out" by attacks upon property and skirmishes on a more or less extended scale . In point of fact , the town has , for upwards of a week , been at the mercy of two hostile mobs . AVindows have been smashed by the score , and the number of broken heads must be very large . On Friday and Friday night

the Roman Catholics attacked three Protestant places of worship , while their opponents " almost destroyed" a nunnery , " wrecked" the office of the St . Patrick Burial Society , and broke the fanlight over the hall door of the Roman Catholic Bishop's house . A large number of arrests have been made . On Sunday night and Monday the rioters set all law at defiance ,

and damaged property and one another with the wildest ferocity . Firearms were freely used , and some twenty persons are said to have received gunshot wounds . On Monday , the shops and other places of business were closed , and cavalry were moving through the streets , but without preventing collisions between the mobs , as the rioting continued on Tuesday , AVednesday , and

Thursday . At the Leeds Assizes , Joseph Myei-3 was sentenced to death for the murder of wife at Sheffield . At the Central Criminal Court the woman who thrust her child in a bundle up the chimney in a public house parlour was found guilty , with a recommendation to mercy . The judge sentenced herto death . A poor woman , who had heen deserted hy her- husband , drowned her three children and herself in tlie Thames , at

Reading , on AA ' ednesday . Seventy children were last week seized with dangerous symptoms , consequent on eating some poisonous beans which had been thrown away among some rubbish discharged from a vessel just arrived in Liverpool from Africa . The majority of them were taken to the hospital , and one at least lias died . A remarkable trial whicli has occupied the Court at the Surrey Assizes , at Guildford , for the last three or four

days was abruptly brought to a conclusion . The plaintiff sued several gentlemen , the directors of a defunct asphaltum company , for £ 2 , 100 , the amount he paid for his shares in the company , his plea being that he had been duped into buying them by a fraudulent prospectus , and other fraudulent representations put forth by the directors . At the conclusion of the plaintiff ' s

case a consultation took place , and a compromise was agreed to hy which the plaintiff withdrew the imputation of fraud , and the defendants agreed to pay him £ 2 , 400 , out of which he was to pay this own costs in the suit ; and , further , they agreed to indemnify him against any liabilities he might have incurred as a shareholder . Mr . Baron Martin , in dismissing the case , hoped

that parties who might wish to purchase shares in jointstock companies would . read a report of the trial before doing so . A' murder on the high seas was investigated before the magistrates at Southampton on Friday , the 5 th . A German sailor , Bjornsen , was charged with the murder of the captain of a ship with an English register in June last . The ship left

London in tho beginning of May for China , and when near Pernainbuco , the prisoner , who seems to have had no previous quarrel with any one , fired a pistol first at one of the mates , whom , fortunately , he missed , and then at the captain , whom he shot through the head . He then lowered himself into the life boat , and left the ship , none of the rest of the crew daring to molest him till he had got some distance , when they fired at and sunk the boat , and , taking him out of the water , put

him m irons . A counsel for his defence cast doubts on the right of the ship to carry the English flag , and the case was adjourned to have that point cleared up . A man named James Cunningham was tried at the Liverpool Assizes , on the charge of himself undertaking service , and engaging others to take service , on board the Confederate steamer Rappahannock , then lying at Calais . It appeared that he had engaged engineers

and firemen to serve on board a steamer , giving them no hint of tlie service on which they were about to engage till they were under the Confederate flag . The prisoner was found guilty , hut the judge contented himself with binding him in his own recognisances to appear for judgment when called upon . At the same Assizes , two men mamed Jones and

Highatt , merchants and ship-store dealers , were tried before the Lord Chief Justice on the charge of inducing sailors to embark on hoard the Confederate steamer Georgia , which , when in this country , was named the Japan . The evidence as to the act of enlistment was ample and conclusive ; but a point of law was raised to the effect that the enlistment took place at Brest , and

so not within the jurisdiction of this country . The Lord Chief Justice overruled the objection , but consented to reserve it for appeal . The prisoners were found guilty , but sentence was deferred till the legal technicality was settled . An extraordinary case of attempting to drown an old man took place on Tuesday evening . It appeared some young men who were iu

debt to a quack doctor invited him to the banks of the Regent's Canal , near the spot of Mr . Briggs's murder , under promise of payment . Instead of doing so they pushed him into the water , and it is said that if assistance had not come he would have been drowned . The prisoners said they only meant to give him a ducking . A coroner's jury have returned a verdict of wilful murder against a young girl named Haxis , at Upper Clapton . She

was delivered of an illegitimate child while alone in her mother s house , and the medical evidence is to the effect that the infant ' s death was caused by foul means . The prisoner is only nineteen years of age . An inquest has been held in the Hackney-road , on the death of a little boy who lost his life by eating some poisoned bread and butter . The parents of the child had spread some phosphorus on some buttered bread to poison rats and put

it on a shelf , where they were in the habit of putting bread and butter for him to eat . The poor fellow ate the poisoned food , and was instantly enveloped in a sheet of blue flame which issued out of his mouth . He died in great agony . The jury severely censured the gross carelessness of the parents , while they acquitted them of intentional poisoning . An inquest was

held on Friday afternoon on the body of a married woman who was burned to death in consequence of her dress , distended hy crinoline , catching fire . The poor woman was alone iu the house , employed iu her household duties ; and though help was afforded by her landlady , every part of her person was scorched by the flame . It was stated that there was

another case now in the hospital of burning from the effects of crinoline . The inquest on the unfortunate Guardsman who was shot at AA'imbledon , was concluded on Monday . Several witnesses were examined , including the military officers in charge of the ground . They all agreed that it was contrary to the regulations to fire at any of the targets

while the danger signal was flying . Serjeant Roberts , who fired tbe shot , was called . He declined to make any statement or to call any witnesses , hut it was proved by others that he admitted to them he fired the shot . The jury returned a verdict of death by misadventure , and the coroner , after a few words to Serjeant Roberts on the fatal results of his want of caution , discharged him amid general cheering . An alarming and fatal accident occurred on Tuesday morning at the Camden-road