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The Week.

case , ventured upon the mild joke that the gentlemen for whom Mr . Reynolds acteel "had better change their title to tho Anti-British Tobacco Society , which would confer an unmitigated amount of good upon society . " The Rev . John Gurney , a clergyman of the Church of England , was , on Friday , sentenced to seven days' imprisonment by tho

Lambeth Police Magistrate , for creating a disturbance in Mr . Spurgeon ' s Tabernacle on the previous night . It was stated by a police inspector that the rev . gentleman , when taken to the station , was " mad drunk . " Matthews , the now wellknown cabman , has been before the Bankruptcy Court . He was opposed by some of his creditors , but the Registrar ordered

his release from custody , remarking , with regard to the money he expected in the affair of Mr . Briggs's murder , that , if application was made to Scotland-yard , Matthews ' s share in the reward would , no doubt , be assigned for the benefit of his creditors . Two men , named Staples and Turner , were tried

before Mr . Baron Channell , at Maidstone , on Saturday , for the murder of a man named Fisher , at Orpington , near Bromlej ' , on the 19 th of last November . All three were labourers , and hael been drinking together at a public-house in Orpington , when a quarrel arose between them . Fisher was advised to go home , but the two prisoners went after him ,

and when a policeman came up a few minutes afterwards , the deceased was lying ou the ground bleeding from what proved to be a fractured skull , and the prisoners were endeavouring to lift him up . The jury found them both guilty of manslaughter , with a recommendation to mercy ; and the judge sentenced them to penal servitude for five years .

Ann Corrigan , who was apprehended in Manchester a few days ago , on suspicion of having poisoned a woman named Ann Conway , was discharged at the City Police Court , on Saturday .

At the first examination , it was stated that arsenic had been detected in the contents of two bottles which were alleged to have been found in the prisoner ' s possession , but on a carefu l analysis of the liquids , Professor Roscoe has been unable to find even a trace of poison . Two men , named Henry Brown and Thomas Linelon , were ' sentenced to death at- the Liverpool Assizes , on Saturday , for tho murder of Thomas Macarthy , on

the 3 rd inst . Linelon was recommended to mercy . A pitman , named Atkinson , living at AVinlaton , near Durham , beat his wife to death on Saturday night , Atkinson is in custody . The woman Marsh , who was condemned to death at the Chester Assizes for the murder of her child at Dukinfield , has hael her sentence commuted to penal servitude

for life . ——\ A arne , convicted and sentenced to death at Chelmsford Assizes , for the murder of Amelia Blunt , has made a confession of his guilt . ——Thomas Skaife , who was associated with Marsden , the iron-master , n the extensive forgeries on the Leeds Banking Company , has been tried at the Leeds Assizes , and sentenced to

fifteen years' penal servitude . A sad accident has occurred to a Mr . Crowther , a photographer , who seems to have been preparing a gas , when the retort exploded , killing the poor fellow , and so seriously injuring his child , a boy aboufc two years of ago , that it died soon after its admission into the infirmary . Mrs . Crowther was also severely injured , and soon after the accident

gave birth to a child . The shop was set on fire by the explosion , but tbe llames were soon extinguished . The coroner's inquiry was hell on Monday . It seems that Mr . Crowther , the deceased , was requested by Mr . Morgan , optician , Market Place , to prepare some oxygen gas for him— -his own apparatus having been rendered useless by an explosion . Mr . Crowther undertook the work , anel was supplied by Mr . Morgan with the necessary materials—manganese and chlorate of potash . There can be no

doubt that the manganese was adulterated with soot or powdered coal , and Professor Roscoe stated that such a combination produces a substance aboufc as explosive as gunpowder . The explosion afc Mr . Morgan's took place while he was working with manganese and chlorate of potash supplied by Mr . E . G . Hughes , chemist , and the materials sent to Mr . Crowther , with the exception of

a pound of manganese bought at Mr . Mottershead's , were purchased at the same shop . Mr . Hughes , however , denied that the manganese supplied by him was adulterated , and a sample of that article obtained from his shop was fouud by Professor Roscoe to be pure . A lot procured afc Mr . Motfcershead's also proved to be unadulterated ; but some manganese

which Mr . Morgan said he hael bought at Mr . Hughes's contained about 20 per cent , of coal or soot . Mr . Morgan stated that this manganese was not adulterated by him in the slightest degree , while Mr . Hughes's porter , who served out the article to Mr . Morgan's messenger , declared that it left his master's shop without the addition of either soot or lampblack . The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Mr . Hughes ,

who was admitted to bail . A serious explosion of gunpowder occurred on Monday evening in the shop of Mr . A . Cadden , gunsmith , Brook-sfcreefc . The premises were greatly damaged , but Mr . Cadden , who was the only person in the place afc the time , escaped without serious injury . A terrible accident has taken place at a colliery near Mold , in

Flintshire . Ifc is said that a quantity of water which had accumulated in the old pit burst through the barrier into the colliery where men were afc work , and before help could be afforded nine persons were drowned . Another dreadful accident has occurred , on the North Kent Railway . Ifc seems that a ballast train had entered the Blackheath tunnel , and shortly afterwards ifc was followed and overtaken by au express , which .

crashed into the waggons . Five plate-layers who were travelling on the last of the ballast trucks were killed on the spot , while a sixfch plate-layer received very serious injuries . The engine , tender , anel two first carriages of the express train were overturned , and there is a considerable list of casualties , though no deaths beyond the five mentioned have so far been reported . The corner ' s inquest on the men killed was begun on Monday ,

at the Railway Tavern , Blackheath . It appears from the evidence of the driver and the guard of the ballast train that when about half way through the tunnel the wheels of the engine slipped , and the train came to a stand still . The guard then got down , and went to divide the train into two , and while in the act of uncoupling the waggons the collision occurred . The signalman at the upper end of the tunnel was

positive that he received signals , both from Charlton and from Blackheath , that all was clear , which was the reason of his signalling the express train to enter the tnnnel . The inquest was adjourned . An inquest has been held on a gentleman , a solicitor , iu the City , who , on Tuesday week , took a eab afc the Great Eastern Railway iu Shoreditch , and became so ill on

his way that he was taken to a druggist ' s shop in Bishopsgatestreefc , where he died almost immediately afterwards . It was clearly proved that his death arose from natural causes , and the jury returned their verdict accordingly . The protracted colliers' strike in South Yorkshire has come to an end , the men who turned out at the High Royds and Oaks Collieries having

resumed work on their masters' terms , Ifc is estimated that in this struggle the men have lost afc least £ 70 , 000 in wages . A serious fire occurred on Tuesday morning in the extensive premises of Messrs . Tarn and Co ., of Newington-causewoy It was fortunately soon subdued , but the damage done was considerable . FoEElftu IsiEILiaEifCE . — -A proposal had been laid before

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GRAND LODGE. Article 1
Untitled Article 2
MASONIC SAYINGS AND DOINGS ABROAD. Article 3
SOME NOTES ON PROGRESS. Article 4
THE FUTURE OF FREEMASONRY. Article 6
THE ANTIQUITY AND TEACHINGS OF MASONRY. Article 6
MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES. Article 8
CORRESPONDENCE. Article 11
MASONRY IN AUSTRALIA. Article 11
THE ABBEY OF KILWINNING. Article 12
THE MASONIC MIRROR. Article 13
METROPOLITAN. Article 13
PROVINCIAL. Article 14
INDIA. Article 15
CHINA. Article 16
MASONIC FESTIVITIES. Article 16
LITERARY EXTRACTS. Article 17
Untitled Article 17
THE WEEK. Article 17
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 20
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The Week.

case , ventured upon the mild joke that the gentlemen for whom Mr . Reynolds acteel "had better change their title to tho Anti-British Tobacco Society , which would confer an unmitigated amount of good upon society . " The Rev . John Gurney , a clergyman of the Church of England , was , on Friday , sentenced to seven days' imprisonment by tho

Lambeth Police Magistrate , for creating a disturbance in Mr . Spurgeon ' s Tabernacle on the previous night . It was stated by a police inspector that the rev . gentleman , when taken to the station , was " mad drunk . " Matthews , the now wellknown cabman , has been before the Bankruptcy Court . He was opposed by some of his creditors , but the Registrar ordered

his release from custody , remarking , with regard to the money he expected in the affair of Mr . Briggs's murder , that , if application was made to Scotland-yard , Matthews ' s share in the reward would , no doubt , be assigned for the benefit of his creditors . Two men , named Staples and Turner , were tried

before Mr . Baron Channell , at Maidstone , on Saturday , for the murder of a man named Fisher , at Orpington , near Bromlej ' , on the 19 th of last November . All three were labourers , and hael been drinking together at a public-house in Orpington , when a quarrel arose between them . Fisher was advised to go home , but the two prisoners went after him ,

and when a policeman came up a few minutes afterwards , the deceased was lying ou the ground bleeding from what proved to be a fractured skull , and the prisoners were endeavouring to lift him up . The jury found them both guilty of manslaughter , with a recommendation to mercy ; and the judge sentenced them to penal servitude for five years .

Ann Corrigan , who was apprehended in Manchester a few days ago , on suspicion of having poisoned a woman named Ann Conway , was discharged at the City Police Court , on Saturday .

At the first examination , it was stated that arsenic had been detected in the contents of two bottles which were alleged to have been found in the prisoner ' s possession , but on a carefu l analysis of the liquids , Professor Roscoe has been unable to find even a trace of poison . Two men , named Henry Brown and Thomas Linelon , were ' sentenced to death at- the Liverpool Assizes , on Saturday , for tho murder of Thomas Macarthy , on

the 3 rd inst . Linelon was recommended to mercy . A pitman , named Atkinson , living at AVinlaton , near Durham , beat his wife to death on Saturday night , Atkinson is in custody . The woman Marsh , who was condemned to death at the Chester Assizes for the murder of her child at Dukinfield , has hael her sentence commuted to penal servitude

for life . ——\ A arne , convicted and sentenced to death at Chelmsford Assizes , for the murder of Amelia Blunt , has made a confession of his guilt . ——Thomas Skaife , who was associated with Marsden , the iron-master , n the extensive forgeries on the Leeds Banking Company , has been tried at the Leeds Assizes , and sentenced to

fifteen years' penal servitude . A sad accident has occurred to a Mr . Crowther , a photographer , who seems to have been preparing a gas , when the retort exploded , killing the poor fellow , and so seriously injuring his child , a boy aboufc two years of ago , that it died soon after its admission into the infirmary . Mrs . Crowther was also severely injured , and soon after the accident

gave birth to a child . The shop was set on fire by the explosion , but tbe llames were soon extinguished . The coroner's inquiry was hell on Monday . It seems that Mr . Crowther , the deceased , was requested by Mr . Morgan , optician , Market Place , to prepare some oxygen gas for him— -his own apparatus having been rendered useless by an explosion . Mr . Crowther undertook the work , anel was supplied by Mr . Morgan with the necessary materials—manganese and chlorate of potash . There can be no

doubt that the manganese was adulterated with soot or powdered coal , and Professor Roscoe stated that such a combination produces a substance aboufc as explosive as gunpowder . The explosion afc Mr . Morgan's took place while he was working with manganese and chlorate of potash supplied by Mr . E . G . Hughes , chemist , and the materials sent to Mr . Crowther , with the exception of

a pound of manganese bought at Mr . Mottershead's , were purchased at the same shop . Mr . Hughes , however , denied that the manganese supplied by him was adulterated , and a sample of that article obtained from his shop was fouud by Professor Roscoe to be pure . A lot procured afc Mr . Motfcershead's also proved to be unadulterated ; but some manganese

which Mr . Morgan said he hael bought at Mr . Hughes's contained about 20 per cent , of coal or soot . Mr . Morgan stated that this manganese was not adulterated by him in the slightest degree , while Mr . Hughes's porter , who served out the article to Mr . Morgan's messenger , declared that it left his master's shop without the addition of either soot or lampblack . The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Mr . Hughes ,

who was admitted to bail . A serious explosion of gunpowder occurred on Monday evening in the shop of Mr . A . Cadden , gunsmith , Brook-sfcreefc . The premises were greatly damaged , but Mr . Cadden , who was the only person in the place afc the time , escaped without serious injury . A terrible accident has taken place at a colliery near Mold , in

Flintshire . Ifc is said that a quantity of water which had accumulated in the old pit burst through the barrier into the colliery where men were afc work , and before help could be afforded nine persons were drowned . Another dreadful accident has occurred , on the North Kent Railway . Ifc seems that a ballast train had entered the Blackheath tunnel , and shortly afterwards ifc was followed and overtaken by au express , which .

crashed into the waggons . Five plate-layers who were travelling on the last of the ballast trucks were killed on the spot , while a sixfch plate-layer received very serious injuries . The engine , tender , anel two first carriages of the express train were overturned , and there is a considerable list of casualties , though no deaths beyond the five mentioned have so far been reported . The corner ' s inquest on the men killed was begun on Monday ,

at the Railway Tavern , Blackheath . It appears from the evidence of the driver and the guard of the ballast train that when about half way through the tunnel the wheels of the engine slipped , and the train came to a stand still . The guard then got down , and went to divide the train into two , and while in the act of uncoupling the waggons the collision occurred . The signalman at the upper end of the tunnel was

positive that he received signals , both from Charlton and from Blackheath , that all was clear , which was the reason of his signalling the express train to enter the tnnnel . The inquest was adjourned . An inquest has been held on a gentleman , a solicitor , iu the City , who , on Tuesday week , took a eab afc the Great Eastern Railway iu Shoreditch , and became so ill on

his way that he was taken to a druggist ' s shop in Bishopsgatestreefc , where he died almost immediately afterwards . It was clearly proved that his death arose from natural causes , and the jury returned their verdict accordingly . The protracted colliers' strike in South Yorkshire has come to an end , the men who turned out at the High Royds and Oaks Collieries having

resumed work on their masters' terms , Ifc is estimated that in this struggle the men have lost afc least £ 70 , 000 in wages . A serious fire occurred on Tuesday morning in the extensive premises of Messrs . Tarn and Co ., of Newington-causewoy It was fortunately soon subdued , but the damage done was considerable . FoEElftu IsiEILiaEifCE . — -A proposal had been laid before

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