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to return to work immediately now that the note , so objectionable to their feelings , has been withdrawn . The commander of the Peruvian corvette Union , Avho is accused of having enlisted British subjects for service on board his ship , was arrested on AVednesday week . The Union arrived at that port on the previous day , and the commander was taken into custody just as he was

leaving the official residence of the Port Admiral , to Avhom he had been paying his respects . On tho following Friday he was examined and discharged . Captain Corbet , who is charged with having engaged men for service in the Confederate steamer Shenandoah , which is now prowling in search of Federal merchant vessels , Avas committed for trial at Bow-street . He was admitted

to bail . An authoritative denial is given to the statement that troops are about to be despatched to Canada , in anticipation of a possible war with the "United States . At the Middlesex Sessions two men were tried ' on a charge of swindling . They were selling purses , and one of them pretending to put two halfcrowns into a purse offered to sell it for a shilling . This

tempted the cupidity of a juvenile looker-on , but on getting his purchase into his possession he found only two halfpence , and the purse fell to pieces . The prisoners were found guilty , and the judge disckai-ged them on their OAVU recognisances , to be brought up for judgment when called upon . Mrs . Chetwynd is at length free from her husband . After a trial unusually

protracted even for the Divorce Court , and abounding in more than the normal fcetidness which poisons the atmosphere of that tribunal , the jury came to a verdict that Mr . Chetwynd had been guilty of cruelty and adultery , vfhich offences had not been condoned , and that Mrs . Chetwynd had not been guilty ofthe recriminatory charges alleged against her . The judge therefore pronounced for a conditional dissolution of the marriage . —•—A rather curious newspaper case was tried on Saturday in the Court of Exchequer . A Mr .

Woodhead , who is proprietor of the Huddersfield Examiner , attacked in strong and gross terms , in his paper , Colonel Crosland , who is proprietor of tho Huddersfield Chronicle , and who purposes to stand for the representation of the town at the next election . An action for libel was brought , and was about to be tried , when the defendant , by his solicitor , made a handsome apology , and promised

to publish it in his paper . The action Avas therefore stayed , but the defendant refused to insert the apology , and now a motion was made to compel him . The Court , after a good deal of discussion , agreed to grant a rule calling on the defendant to show why he did not complete his engagement , or why there should not be a new trial . A case such as does not often come before our law courts

was tried on Saturday in the Bail Court . A family had hired a house in St . John ' s AVood and went to reside in it , but they were so annoyed with tho vermin with Avhich they said the house abounded , that they left it after a few nights' trial . The owner sued them for the rent , which they resisted on the grounds alleged , but the jury did not take the same view of the matter

, and returned a verdict for the plaintiff . A curious case of libel was brought before Alderman Lusk , at the Guildhall , on Tuesday . Captain Colborne , of the 60 th Rifles , was charged with publishing , under an assumed name , a defamatory libel against Mr . James Phineas Davis , a solicitor , of Clifford-street , Bond-street , charging him , along with , others , Avith being an extortionate

money-lender , and luring on young men of family to their ruin . The defendant , by his counsel ,-did not deny the publication , but undertook to justify it in a higher court . Ho was therefore committed far trial , but liberated ou bail . A curious case is now before the Irish Courts . Mr . R . B . Tcdford , a surgeon practising at San Francisco , and Miss Sarah Shilliugtoii , a lady living in Ireland , had for some time carried on a correspondence which , it is alleged , resulted in tho lady informing him that if ho came to Ireland she would

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marry the gentleman . He accordingly disposed of his business , and crossed the Atlantic , but after all , the lady refused to fulfil her promise . He died , it is said , of " agony of mind , " and his executor has commenced an action against Miss Shillington for breach of promise of marriage . The necessity of a reform in the law of bankruptcy Avas incidentally referred to on

Monday by Mr . Commissioner Goulburn . If another amendment was to take place he would recommend that one feature in the reforms should be not to appoint what is called a creditors' assignee as a matter of course , especially when there were no assets to collect , but that one should be appointed only when there vras something for him to do , some assets to collect and distribute among

the creditors . The Italian who stands charged with the murder of Harrington , and Avith stabbing two other men at Saffron-hill , was brought up on Monday before Mr . Knox , at Clerkenwell Police-court . Both the men who were stabbed , and who are now in a fair way of recovery , were present and gave evidence . The testimony of one of them , Rebbeck , the barman of the

publichouse , is very important . It will be remembered that at the last examination an attempt was made to show that the outrages were committed , not by tho prisoner , but by another man who was very like him , but who has since disappeared . Rebbeck swears distinctly that it was the prisoner , whom he had known for the last five or six years , who stabbed him , and that ho saw him twice over with a knifeinhis hand . Theprisonerwascommittedfortrial . As a train was about to start from the Arictoria Station ,

Manchester , on the morning of the Sth instant , a woman gave the guard a box , saying she was going to Preston , and that the box was her luggage . It was placed in the van , but was not claimed at Preston ; and after a time it was sent to the "left luggage" department at Euston Station . It was opened there on Friday , aud was then found to contain the body of a female child about twelve

months old .- From the medical evidence given at the inquest , which was opened on Monday , it appears certain that the child was packed into the box alive , and thus suffocated . On Friday a man , named AVilliam Hebblebhwaite , fell down a coalpit shaft at Silkstono Common , near Barnsley , and was killed . In his descent he struckbut did not seriouslinjurea miner who was

, y , being raised to the bank in Avhat is called " a sinking trunk . " It is probable that this collision disturbed the machinery , for shortly afterwards , as two men , named English and Walton , were being drawn up , they were thrown out . of the trunk ,. and falling to the bottom , were killed .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

R , B . J ., FOR A . M . AUD THREE WIDOWS . —We must refer you to the Secretary , Bro . Farnfield , at the Grand Secretary's office . MARK MASTER . —Bro . Fredk . Binckes , Masonic Chambers , Bedford-row , W . C . SrES . —Music , however desirable iu the ceremonies , is a

modem innovation , aud Ave have not yet seen a selection for the various degrees to which Ave can give our approval . ISTON-CONTENT is likely to remain so as far as Ave are concerned . B . AV . —The sooner you consign the book to the fire the

better . AVe decline answering correspondents who take a Masonic test-word for their signature . No true Mason would do so .