The Week.

new . The arrangement was sanctioned by the Court . The Court of Common Pleas has been engaged in deciding the land fide traveller question . It came up on an appeal from a decision of soma magistrates near Birmingham , who had fined a public-house keeper for supplying refreshments in church hours to parties out for a stroll . The Court decided that persons

tak'm-r a walk for their enjoyment were as much entitled to be considered bond fide travellers as those who were on an ordinary journey , and they therefore affirmed the appeal . Robson , ivhose great frauds upon the Crystal Palace Company excited so much attention a few years ago , figures once more in the law reports—this timo as a respondent in a divorce suit . He was

sent out as a convict to Australia , but soon obtained a ticket-ofleave , and the allegation . of the petitioner is that he has contracted a bigamous marriage in Australia with one Jane Bell . At the Central Criminal Court , Edward Hammond , Emily Wakeman , and Elizabeth Allan , appeared to answer tho charge of locking up Jlrs . Hammond , the wife of the male prisoner ;

and also with assaulting the prosecutrix . The facts of the case will be fresh in mind , having been so recently before the magistrates at the police-court . Hammond now pleaded guilty , and the two female prisoners were discharged . Judgment on the other prisoner was respited , during which he was admitted to bail . At tho Middlesex Sessions , Henry Collings , the

manager of the Penny Parcels Delivery Company , was put on his trial for illegally pawning some watches which had been sent to the company in a parcel for delivery . The prisoner admitted his guilt , but , throurdi his counsel , pleaded several mitigating circumstances , wliich had such weight with the judge that he sentenced bim to the comparatively lenient punishment of nine months' hard labour . A strange story has been reported from Liverpool . Some sailors recently paid

off from a ship , with abundance of money in their pockets and more liquor than was g-ood for them , proceeded ou Monday afternoon by the London and JNorth-AVesfcern Railway from Euston-square to Liverpool . They ivere all in a second-class carriage , and other passengers were in the carriage with them . When a little beyond Paigby , one of the sailors disappeared from the carriage . The statement of his companions was that being

drunk he got up from his seat , pushed the door open , and fell out . Others said that he was robbed by his companions and pushed out . His companions were taken into custody . Great but fruitless exertions wore made all night to find tho body , but in the meantime the drunken sailor , who had escaped unhurt , had a good sleep behind a hedge , and then walked to the

nearest station , whence he was forwarded to Liverpool . Ann Leslie , the woman ivho ivas tried , but acquitted , at tbe late Manchester assizes , on a charge of shooting at Mr . John AVlialley , a merchant in that city , has evinced her appreciation of the merciful disposition of JIanchester jurors by again threatening to take the life of her former protector . On Wednesday

night Mr . AA'halley received a letter from her , in which she declared , "As true as there is a God in Heaven , I ivill make you swear your life against me , or I will bo hung for you . " Tho police were communicated with ; and when she ivas apprehended she said to the detective who took her into custody , " I will murder him if he docs not report me . " She was at once taken before

the magistrates , and committed for trial at the assizes . Tho coroner's inquest on the Plaistow murder has been concluded , and the prisoner Kohl brought before the jury . He ivas defended by a solicitor , and the evidence of the witnesses previously taken was read over to him . ¦ Dr . Letheby gave in a report of some chemical analysis he had made of spots on on the prisoner ' s clothes and on the hatchet , showing that there were ] upon them traces of blood , of human hair ,

and of threads that appeared to have eome fron * the neckerchief tho murdered man was AVearing . The Coroner then summed up , and the jury returned a verdict of AA ilful Murder against the prisoner . He was committed for trial on th coroner's ivarrant . It is difficult for Englishmen to rcalis the frantic excitement which the execution of the murderer of

Mr . Briggs has aroused in Germany . A Berlin letter describes the . state of public feeling in that city , on Monday , after the intelligence of JIuller ' s death ( but not his confession ) had been made public . The writer says he never before saw a feverish state of agitation . " Vengeance is vowed against England for the foul crime , " and the writer of the letter , who had

been looking into the reading-rooms and beerhouses , deemed it prudent to get out of the way as soon as possible . The "bitterness and animosity against England beggared description , " and it ivould be to him no matter of astonishment if some English were "lynched or maltreated . " Dr . Louis Cappel has addressed a letter to the editor of the German newspaper ,

the Hermann , thanking the German Legal Protection Society for the exertions they made to save the life of Muller , being under the apprehension of his innocence . In the course of his letter he reverts to the last conversation that passed between him and Jfuller , in wliich the convict declared his guilt . The words , as Dr . Cappel gives them , are more full and distinct than even

those that ivere before published . It will be remembered that , as formerly given , the last words were ' ' I have done it" ( "Ich habe es gethan" ) . Tho doctor now informs us Hint , in answer to his last question , the convict , in a distinct A'oice , said , " Yes ; I have done it" ( " Ja , Ich habe os gethan" ) . These words dispel the doubt as to the meaning of Muller in these words . Two railway labourers were brought before the magistrates at Bromley , in Kent , on Tuesday , on a charge of murder . The

circumstances are very suspicious . The deceased man was quarrelling with one of the prisoners at the door of a public-house on Saturday night last , but was advised by the constables to go home . The prisoners followed bim , and tivo policemen followed them , but before they overtook them they had come up with the deceased , and were in the act of lifting him up . His face was covered with blood , and he appeared to have been savagel y

kicked about the eyes . He was insensible , and never rallied . The prisoners ivere remanded . There are painful accounts from the coast of the disastrous effects of the recent gale . At Southporta vessel was lost , and all on board except one seaman perished . Similar casualties are reported from Barnstaple , Clovolly ( Devon ) , and Campbelton . A ship foundered in the

Channel , but fortunately the crew had time to get to their boats , and ivere afterwards picked up . A large vessel , the Pobin Hood , ivas run into by the Spirit of the Ocean , on Mondav nigh t , iu the Channel near Dungeness . So severe was tiie shock , that the Pol / in Hood sunk at once , and the other vessel was seriously damaged . The crew of the foundered ship took to

their boats , and it is stated that one of these boats , with seventy persons on board , is missing . A sad case of poisoning has occurred at a place called Gresford , a village near Wrexham . On Thursday iveek a labourer , named Jlillington , and his wife and four children , became suddenl y ill after tea . Medical assistance was obtained , but two of the children

died on Wednesday last , while tho other two children and their parents are described as lying in a dangerous state . It is supposed , but tho conjecture has not yet been verified by a chemical analysis , that tho bread which they ate on Thursday night iveek contained poisonous matter . De AA'itt and Wright , the two men concerned in the great wine frauds , have been convicted at the Central Criminal Court , and were each sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude . At a coroner ' s inquest in