The Week.

respectable witness was called to speak to her character , and the prisoner , when asked what she had to say against tlie passing of sentence , made a speech in which she solemnly affirmed her innocence . The Recorder , who declined to express any opinion upon the propriety of the verdict , but said his duty was simply to give it effect , sentenced her to nine mouths' hard labour . The foreigners who are charged with frauds upon people upon

tho Continent were brought up again at the Mansion House on the 22 nd inst . Some interesting evidence was given , and the prisoners were remanded . The female protested strongly against her detention . Amelia Southernwood , late a chambermaid at the Charing-cross Hotel , . was brought up at the Bow-street Police-court to answer a charge of murdering her child . The

prisoner had delivered herself of a child and then killed ifc b y jamming its neck in a drawer . She was committed for trial . Fenianism continues to attract attention . On Saturday last some Irish detectives arrested a man named Archdeacon , in Liverpool . He kept a little stationer's shop there ; but ifc is alleged that papers were found in his possession proving his

intimate connection with the Fenian organisation . In Ireland there have been one or two more arrests . In Liverpool on Sunday last a wicked hoax was played upon the merchants . One of the papers reported that a vessel , the Hannah , on her voyage ftom America , had sighted a large armed vessel full of men ; that this ship threw a shot across the Hannah ' s bows ,

whereupon the master hoisted American colours ; and that on seeing this the armed ship hoisted a Fenian flag and sailed away . This news was calculated to alarm some of those who at Liverpool saw with so much satisfaction the doings of the Alabama . It was , however , Epurely an invention from beginning to end . Just ns the service in St . Andrews ' s Church , Holborn , -was being finished on Sunday evening , some scoundrel

in the building called out " Fire . " There was much alarm and great crowding , and several persons were more or less injured before the panic could be allayed . The fellow who raised the cry got away , but it is said he left his hat behind him , and that , ifc is to be hoped , will lead to his detection and punishment . A verv

serious accident happened on Saturday morning last at the railway works , Battersca . A number of workmen were employed in building a bridge over a roadway , when suddenly the wooden staging gave way , and several of the men were thrown to the ground , while bricks and beams were showered apon tbem . One poor fellow named Flood was killed , and

others were more or less injured . The Privy Council have published a most important report from Professor Symonds in reference to the cattle plague . The Professor has heen making inquiries into a case where several cows have died on a farm at Blakeney , in Norfolk . The conclusion he comes to is that sheep equally with horned stock are liable to the disease .

In this particular case ifc appears to be beyond doubt that the disease was brought to the farm by a flock of lambs . AVilliam John Sfcorer , who has been committed on the coroner ' s warrant for the manslaughter of Miss Blake , of Salisbury , was to have been brought before the magistrates on Monday . As ho had been committed for trial , however , he could not be

brought up without a writ of habeas corpus , aud therefore no proceedings were taken . In all probability the prisoner will be tried on the coroner ' s commitment only . . The foreigners who are charged with forging Russian banknotes were brought up again at the Lambeth Police-court on Monday , After some additional evidence had been given they were committed for trial . The Mansion House committee for tbe provision of Sanitoria for diseased cattle have thrown up their work . They met on Tuesday , and complained , first , that

no adequate subscriptions came in , and next that the Government thwarted them in their efforts to provide proper places for the reception and treatment of diseased cafcfcle . They therefore resolved to recommend that no further steps be taken in the matter . While there have been five arrests at Tralee , no more have taken place in Dublin during the last few days Archdeacon , the Liverpool Fenian , and Morissey a young

apothecary ' s assistant , were examined on Monday , but no evidence was taken . Archdeacon exhibited great anxiety lest a complimentary letter , addressed to him by the Emperor of tbe French , which he says was amongst his papers , should be lost . There is a significant rumour that one of the persons apprehended has turned " informer , '' and that he will give " important

information . " The coroner ' s jury who have been inquiring into the cause of death of Thomas Underline , at Bromley , have returned a verdict of wilful murder against some '' person or persons unknown . Underline was beaten and kicked by some navvies and died in consequence . An inquest was held on Tuesday on the body of the man who was killed on Saturday

by the fall of a railway arch at Battersea . The evidence seemed to indicate that there had been a want of strength in some of the materials used , aud the jury returned a verdict to that effect . At the Clerkenwell Police-court on Tuesday George Price was charge with having caused the death of his wife . The evidence showed that Mrs . Price had been suffering

from disease ; that the prisoner refused to give her the means ol obtaining even the necessaries of life ; that he threatened and abused her ; and thathe actually refused to allow her to have the comforts which friends provided for her . He was remanded for further examination . The genuine text of Earl Russell ' s circular on the Gaslein Convention has been published . It differs only in a few verbal particulars from the version with

which the public are already familiar . So that controversy is settled . Feninnism is supposed to have a hiding place in Leeds . A man named M'Carthy applied on Tuesday for a summons against a fellow-workman , whom he charged with offensive language towards him . The tables , however , were turned against the complainant , and ifc was alleged that he was a member of the Fenian organisation and the secretary of the

Leeds branch , and that on various occasions he had denounced the English Government , and said that the streets might one day run with English blood . Another man was said to be the drill sergeant , but he emphatically denied the imputation , and M'Carthy himself spoke in extremely subdued tones . The Mayor rejected

his application for a summons , and dismissed him with a caution . A ship called the Accrington was on fire on AVednesday in the Thames , She had been hauled out of the East India Docks , and was prepared to set sail for Calcutta . Part of her cargo consisted of railway sleepers dressed with creosote . It is said that the vapour from these ignited nfc a candle taken into

the hold by a seaman . At any rate , early in the morning the cargo was found to be on fire , and it was only with great difficulty the flames were subdued . The damage is great . ——It is asserted that yellow fever has made its appearance at Swansea , and that Government have sent a medical commissioner to inquire into the matter . A contemporary also reports that a

case of cholera has occurred at Southampton . There is no special cause of alarm in this , for probably no summer passes in which there are not isolated cases of death from Asiatic cholera , or some disease closely resembling it . FOREIGN IKTEIMGEXCE . —The Emperor of Austria iias issued a remarkable manifesto . He acknowledges that thus far his scheme of united empire has failed , because of the passive resistance of Hungary and Croatia . He therefore offers , for the