Obituary.

Obituary .

BRO . FARNCOATB . On the 23 rd inst ., at his residence , Rose-hill , Foresthill , Surrey , in his eighty-seventh year , died Bro . Thomas Farncomb , formerly Alderman of tho Ward of Babsishaw , and Lord Mayor of the City of London 1819-50 . Daring

his year of office , Bro . Farncomb invited a large number of his brethren to a splendid banquet at the Mansion House . The example bas not been followed .

The Week.

THE WEEK .

THE COTJHT . —The Queen , accompanied by Princess Helena and attended by Lady Churchill and Lieufc .-General tho Hon . C . Grey , rode over the hill to Invermark , where her Majestyslept on Tuesday night , tho 19 th inst ., at Lord Dalhonsie's shooting lodge , and returned to Balmoral the same way ou AVednesday evening , the 20 th . Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse ,

Princess Helena , and Princess Beatrice , attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting , honoured tlie Braemar gathering with their presence on the afternoon of the 21 st . Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse , Princess Helena , Princsss Louise , and Princess Beatrice went to a dance given by the Prince of Wales at Abergcldie on the evening of the

22 nd . The Queen , accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Princess of Wales , Princess Louis of Hesse , and Princess Louise , drove to the Lynn of Quolch , and returned by Mar Lodge to the Castle on the 26 th . GEUEUAII JH OJIE NEWS . —The weekly return of the Registrar-General shows that tho mortality in Loudon is below the

average by about 110 . During tho week four deaths from cholera are reported , hut as the Registrar-General observes , " cases occur sporadically every week in summer in every country of Europe and Asia . " During the last ten weeks there have been 127 deaths from cholera in London ; but this is nothing extraordinary , and is indeed believed to ho less

than in many other cities of Europe . The births too are again in excess of the average . The rate of mortality is less in London than in any of the great cities of the kingdom , except Bristol ; Dublin and Birmingham are next ; Hull having a death rate of sixty per cent , and Salford fifty , greater than the metropolis . The annual orations were delivered

at Christ's Hospital on the morning of the 21 st inst . in the presence of the Lord Mayor and others . The young orators distinguished themselves by the ability with whicli they performed their allotted task , and the subjects of the orations were not of the usual stereotyped kind . Several of the speakers alluded in eloquent and touching language to the death of Mr .

Cobden , and one of them passed a high eulogy on President Lincoln , who , he said , died " with the words of mercy on his lips , and with forgiveness at his heart . " Mr . Moons has written to correct an error which has crept into some accounts of his capture by the Neapolitan brigands . lie was not travelling on a cross read at the time of his unlucky

misadventure , but on the public and much-frequented highway between Pa > stum and Salerno , the security of whicli was guaranteed by the Government . At the Central Criminal Court , on the 21 st , a hoy named Edward Breeze was charged with setting fire to the premises of his master , William Andrews , a tradesman in New Oxford-street . The offence seems to have been prompted by the prisoner ' s desire

to be revenged for his dismissal from his employer ' s service . The judge , as well as the jury , took a merciful view of the ease , and his lordship , instead of sending the lad to prison for a long term , ordered him to be privately whipped . Another case tried was that of Madame Valentin , who was charged with perjury committed in one of the many trials in which she has been engaged . The jury , the reporter says , to the surprise of

the court , found her guilty . The Recorder does not seem to approve of the verdict . He postponed passing sentence . The woman Esther Lack , who murdered her children in Southwark , was also tried . She was acquitted on the ground of insanity . Two persons named Stack , husband and wife , were charged wit causing the death of their child by ill-usage . The

man was acquitted ; the woman , being found guilty , was senfenced to four months' imprisonment . At the Marlboroughstreet Police-court , a man named Henry Thomas Durrant , was charged with assaulting a superannuated policeman named Powell . Durrant had gone to Powell ' s house , struck him , pub handcuffs upon him , and tied his legs together . Powell ' s

cries brought assistance , and the prisoner escaped . Ifc seems that Powell is liable to fits of insanity , and that while in one of these his wife got an order from Dr . Clapp for his removal to tho workhouse . The workhouse authorities refused to send for him , and his wife induced the prisoner to go into the house and act iu the manner described .

The magistrate fined Durrant £ 5 , or a month ' s imprisonment . A strange case of poisoning has been inquired infco at Greenwich , hy a coroner's jury , under the direction of Mr . Carttar . Mrs . Elizabeth Reeve , the wife of a veterinary surgeon at Greenwich , was taken ill on Aug . 15 th . She was seen by two or three medical men who were brought to her by her husband . They thought she was in labour . She died during

the night . Suspicions arose as to the cause of death , and a post-mortem examination was proposed . The husband objected unless a medical man was present on his behalf . This condition was finally complied with , but it was seventy-eight hours after death before the examination took place . The intestines were sent to Professor Rodgers , who found in them traces of veratria ,

or white hellebore . The medical men were of opinion that this had caused death . The inquest is adjourned , and the husband has heen required to enter into sureties for his future appearance . A youth , named William Chalmers , was brought up at the Clerkenwell Police court charged with embezzling £ 800 and with arson . The prisoner had taken the money in small

sums from his master , Mr . W . Constantine , of New Ormondstreet , and squandered it on some woman . AVhen discovery became likely he set fire to his master's office , in order , if possible , to destroy the books and papers which would have shown his guilt . He was remanded for a week . The authorities have pounced upon a Fenian agent afc Sheffield :,

a man named Quigley , who is said to have resided there for sixteen years . The prisoner was employed as a travelling agent by tho brotherhood , and in the interest of the propaganda visited various parts of the Continent . Quigley was sent to Dublin for trial . He seems to have preserved every document that was calculated to ensure his own conviction and

to implicate his confederates . At the Central Criminal Court , on the 22 nd , Henry Rickman was tried on a charge of having murdered his paramour , Anne Scott . As it appeared that the woman was a very drunken disorderly person , aud that the fatal assault committed by the prisoner had been , provoked by her , this charge was abandoned , and the jury convicted him of manslaughter , and strongly recommended him to mercy . Ho was sentenced to nine months' hard labour . Mdme . Valentino has been brought up for judgment . A highly-