The Week.

restore the document for a settled sum . A trap was laid and one man was apprehended , who turned out to be a young man employed in the neighbourhood . The coroner's inquest on the remains of the child Elizabeth Hunter , which were found in the greenhouse of a nurseryman , whose present name is Roe , has been again adjourned . A youth named Clarke is at present

in custody on suspicion , and it appears he had the keys of the -greenhouse on the nig ht of tbe child ' s disappearance ; but , ou the other hand , the sister of the murdered girl , who was with her at the time of her abduction , stated that the man who took 'her sister away appeared to be an older man than Clarke . She had known Clarke before tho abduction , but it never occurred

to her that it was he who took away her sister . The occupier of the nursery-ground is one of tbe principal witnesses against Clarke , but lie declines to enter upon his own antecedents . He ¦ gave no reason for his conduct in burying tbe poor child ' s skull , when it was found , without calling tho attention of the police to the discovery . A serious accident has befallen Sir Cresswell

'Cresswell . AAliile riding from the Divorce court up Constitutionhill , he was thrown from his horse by the carriage of Lord Aveland , an axletree of ivhich had broken and the horses taken fright . He was picked up immediately , aud taken first of all to St . Georges ' s Hospital , where it was found that his knee-cap was fractured . His lordship will probably be

confined to his house for some time , and the business ¦ of the Divorce is adjourned until the Michaelmas term . Another shocking accident , arising from those demoralising exhibitions which Blondin made popular , toook place on Monday -at Birmingham . There ivas a fete of the Foresters at Aston Park , in the neighbourhood of that town , and among other . attractions a woman , who appears to be a native of the town , undertook to perform sundry feats on a high tight rope . After

passing once or twice along the rope she put a sack over her head and set out again on her perilous venture ; she had not taken many steps when the ropa broke , and she fell heavily to the ground at her husband ' s feet , and ivas taken up dead . The " Roupell forgeries" have given rise to another trial , which was opened , at Chelmsford , on Thursday week . Our readers Avill remember that the ex-member for Lambeth voluntarily

returned last year from the Continent , whither he had fled for most cogent reasons , and made a confession to the effect that Tie had obtained possession of his late father ' s property by means of a forged > vill and forged deeds . He sold or mortgaged the property to various persons , and his avowed object in returning to England , was to make a clean breast of his crimes , so as to

enable the heir-at-law to regain the estates which he had fraudulently acquired and disposed of . He was sentenced to penal servitude for life on his own confession , and an action brought by the heir-at-law last year for the recoveries of some of the property which the convict had sold ended in a compromise , by ivhich the defendant agreed to pay half the estimated value of

the estate which formed the subject of the trial . A similar ease is now in course of hearing ; but the defendants , it is understood , Avill endeavour to prove that the confession of forgery was merely a contrivance on the part of AVilliam Roupell to regain , for tbe benefit of his iamily , the property which he himself had squandered away . The case has not yet been

concluded . A serious charge of murder has been before the police magistrate at Southwark . A woman , the wife of Joseph Howes , a porter , near the Blackfriars-road , was found lying on her back in her own room quite dead , with the blood oozing from her mouth and nose . A neighbour deposed that both the ivife and husband had been drinking that day and had quarrelled , and that she afterwards heard blows and screams in their r . oom . The prisoner was remanded AA'illiam Howsden , a

working man , was found dead in Leather-lnne on Wednesday morning . It seems that two men Avere seen to assault the deceased , and knock him down . This fact was communicated to the police , Avho are searching for the supposed murderers . COMAIEECIAL . —At the half-yearly meeting of the City Bank a dividend was declared ( after transferring £ 10 , 000 to the reserve fund ) of 6 per cent , per annum on the paid-up capital , and

a bonus of 1 £ , both free of income tax , together equal to 10 per cent , for the year . At the second ordinary general meeting of the shareholders in the Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool ( Limited ) , the report of the directors was adopted and a dividend of 10 s . per share ( free of income tax ) was declared . At an extraordinary meeting of the proprietors of

the National Discount Company the report of the directors was adopted , and a dividend at the rate of S per cent , per annum was declared , free of income tax . At the half-yearly meeting of the St . Catherine Dock Company , a dividend of 1 J per cent , was declared .

FOEEIGN INTELLIGENCE . —Monday was the anniversary of accession of the King of the Belgians , and it is gratifying to find that bis Majesty ' s health is so much improved that lie was present at tbe celebration of the event in the Church of St . Gudule . His subjects expressed their joy by loudly cbeeriug him . . The National Government of Poland of Tuesday issued the first number of a new official journal , styled the Independence ,

the leading article in which spurns the idea of any negociation with Russia . The reply of the Russian Government to Earl Russell ' s despatch has been published . Its tone , although strictly courteous , is not by any means so conciliatory as the public had been led to expect by the summaries published in French journals . It holds out no hope of any arrangement

with regard to an armistice , nor does there seem any chance of an understanding such as the great Powers desire in relation to a conference . Even with reference to the six points , the Russian Government only accepts the suggestions Avith the remark that they have already been carried out or promised hy the Emperor Alexander . The despatch contains all the old allusions to

foreign encouragement given to the rebels , and has a good deal of the tu quoque style of retort about it . Coldly urbane , and sometimes a little incisive , neither its substance nor its tone appears encouraging . Tho replies to France and Austria are of

a similar nature , and do not appear to be satisfactory to either Government . A body of 400 Polos and some Englishmen , on board an English steamer , disembarked on the 13 th in Wallachian territory , in the neighbnubood of Ismail . The Wallachian authorities tried peaceable means to stop tbe expedition , which failing , a conflict ensued , and the Poles ivere defeated and retreated . The whole body subsequently surrendered . The

Polish expeditionists who were arrested in Wallachia , are by the order of Prince Couza , to be treated as military prisoners and to receive rations . Their commander has been released upon parole . A letter from St . Petersburgh announces the publication of an Imperial decree , ordering a fre 3 h levy of troops in November next , at the rate of 10 men for every 1000 of the

population . The arrest of five Roman or Neapolitan brigands on board a French steam packet at Genoa has led to a formal demand for " redress" by the French government from the Cabinet of Turin . Certain formalities requisite for arrests on board French vessels in Italian harbours are alleged to have been neglected , and the more or less vigorous protest of the

French Consul at Genoa Avas disregarded . Hence the demanded " redress . " The Italian Government at once agreed to surrender the prisoners on conditions ivhich shall preserve its own dignity and maintain the authority of its laws . Probably this mean 3 that tbe brigands are to be finally handed over to the Italian