The Week.

guilty , and the two male prisoners received a sentence of 10 years' penal servitude ; the woman Broughton seven years ; and the girl Seymour 18 months' hard labour . Emil Werner , Gustavo Lheman , and Lucien Flatow , convicted of the great frauds upon a French firm , have been each sentenced to two years' hard labour , with the

addition of a fine of £ 500 . A German sailor who stands charged with murdering his captain on the high seas was finally examined before the Mayor of Southampton on Saturday , and after some further evidence was taken he was committed for trial . There is some doubt whether the ship had a right to carry the

English flag , aud , consequently whether the prisoner , is within the English jurisdiction ; but it was agreed that that point should be reserved for the trial . A salesman , named Bond , has been committed for trial by the Fleetwood magistrates on a charge of felony , attended by circumstances of a very peculiar character .

In October , I 860 , a young man , named Mayor , received two £ 50 notes on account of the Fylde Timber Company , in the presence of Bond , but the notes were after-TVards missed , and Mayor was charged with stealing them , Bond being one of the witnesses against him . The case , however , Avas dismissed , but the prosecution

had such an effect on Mayor's health that he was paralysed , and has been confined to his bed three years . A few days ago , the missing notes were found in a pocketbook which Bond admits to be his property . A singular breach of promise case has been tried at the West Hiding assizes at Leeds . The plaintiff was on the shady side of fifty , and the defendant was a rich old widow ,

said to be nearly seventy years of age . Her money was evidently the object of the suit , and the "fortunehunter" was awarded a farthing damages . A woman , named Thompson , not more than twenty years old , has been committed for trial for the murder of her child , by the use of vermin poison , at Birmingham . From the

report of a case which has been heard at the Woolwich police-court , it would appear that Federal crimps are increasing in audacity , and that they are tempering Avith the allegiance of BriDish soldiers in our home barrack-rooms . A man was brought before the magistrate on a charge of inducing privates in the Eoyal

Engineers to desert and join the Federal army . He was detected sleeping in the Engineer ' s barracks , having been introduced there by some of the soldiers , and evidence was adduced of his having set forth the advantages of the Federal service to the soldiers , though those Avho had committed themselves most deeply with the

crimp were , of course , the most unwilling to tell what they knew . The prisoner was remanded . At the adjourned inquest which was held on the body of Mr . Briggs , the victim in the North London Eailwa }* tragedy , additional evidence was given which tended to strengthen the case against the man Muller . The accounts by the

last American mail state that the London detectives despatched for the purpose have made satisfactory arrangements with the New York police for Muller ' s capture , even to providing a special steamer so as to anticipate the pilot boat as soon as the Victoria is sighted . ——Ac inquest was held on Saturday , at Bell Bar , a small Tillage a couple of miles from Hatfield , on the body of

a woman whowas killed on the railway on Thursday week . It was a deliberate case of self destruction . The poor woman had previously written to a relative to say that before she received the letter the writer would be dead ; and the engine driver of a passenger train on the Great Northern line stated that soon after he left Hatfield he

saw a woman sitting on the line just outside the outer rails . He whistled as the train approached , on which the woman instead of moving ont of the way deliberately leaned back upon the rails and in the next moment was flung aside by the iron guard of the engine a crushed and mangled corpse . The jury returned a verdict of

temporary insanity . The riots at Belfast appear to have come to an end , and it is worthy of remark that this result has been brought about , not by any action of the magistrates , the police , or the military , but by the respectable inhabitants of the city taking the matter into their own hands ; gentlemen in whom the antagonistic

parties had confidence visiting tho districts where the rioters were , reasoning with them , calming their passions , and exacting from them promises which appear to have been faithfully kept wherever given , that if they were not attacked they would not become aggressors . Several persons have died ; several are in hospital wounded ;

aud though several are under arrest , it does not appear that auy are apprehended on the charge of murder . The riots are being succeeded by violent recriminations amongst those who officially , or unofficially , claim to be the leaders of the people in the city . Accusations of negligence , criminal connivance , active assistance even ,

are being scattered about by the partisans of both sides , ancl the local press is nob the most backward in making serious charges . The ill feeling on the part of the populace has not altogether subsided , as some of the Protestant and Catholics in the mills will not work together . Several threatening notices to masters to dismiss

certain workpeople , & c , have also been given . An accident which might have been attended with fatal results , took place iu a tunnel on tho London ancl North Western Railway on Monday night last . Eleven workmen were proceeding with a truck through the Waterloo tunnel to commence work on the line , when the truck

came m collision with a goods waggon loft standing in . the tunnel , without an ) ' light to warn advancing trains . The men wero thrown off the truck and severely injured , ancl it is feared that some of them will die . -A " theatrical scandal" which ended in Mr . Bateman , the father of the popular actress , being committed for brial ab the

sessions , for an assault on Mrs . Bristowo , though the real charge was the graver one of attempting to abduct Mrs . Bristowe ' s daughter . Mr . Bateman denied both charges , and the young lady herself denied that the slightest impropriety of conduct had taken place between her and Mr . Bateman . The case was brought before the

Middlesex Sessions on Monday , when Mrs . Bristowe read a letter from Mr . Bateman to his client , assuring her on his honour as a gentleman that he had always behaved to her daughter as a gentleman ; as to the assault , if he touched her at all it was unintentional , for which he aow expressed his regret . Under these circumstances Mrs . Bristowe withdrew the charge , and the matter terminated . The Welsh Eisteddfod com-