The Week.

Each circular Avas contained in an envelope bearing a stamp after the fashion of a postage-stamp , but marked with the name of the company , and having the charge , one farthing , -upon it . The solicitor for the Post Office contended that these ¦ circulars were letters within the meaning of tbe Act which prohibits anybody but the Post Office authorities from carrying

and delivering letters under a penalty of £ 5 for each offence . While the case was proceeding , Mr . Eyre , the manager of the Circular Delivery Company , entered the court and asked that the hearing might be adjourned to enable him to got legal advice . He contended that the circulars woro not letters within the moaning of the Act . The magistrate adjourned the

case . A shocking crime was perpetrated in Chester-street , Lambeth . In that street , which connects the lvcnningtonroad with Kennington-lane , there lived at No . 51 a family named Roberts . About five o ' clock in the afternoon cries of murder were heard , and a neighbour went to the house . She was met at the door by a boy , who said his mother had

murdered two of her children , and wished to murder him . The neighbour went into the house and found Mrs . Roberts lying on the basement floor dying , she having severed an artery in her arm . In rooms upstairs were the bodies of two children whose throats the wretched woman had cut . They were dead . Assistance was obtained , but Mrs . Roberts soon died . Some

domestic differences are alleged as the cause of the crime . At tho Central Criminal Court on tho 23 rd inst ., tho trials arising out of tho tailors' strike camo to a conclusion . Tho wholo of tho prisonors whoso sontoncos had boon doforrod wore brought boforo Baron Bramwell to roeoivo judgmont . \ Yo aro happj' to stato that tho loarnod judgo took tho most louiont viow of thoir ofJonco , and , aftor kindly and oarnostly cautioning thom , allowod thom , with ono oxcoption , to depart . Tho oxcoptiou was Robort

Knox , who , having been found guilty of porsonal violonco and intimidation , was sontencod to throo months' imprisonment with hard labour . Shortly aftor tho trial of tho oporativo tailors was concludod , an extraordinary fraud was brought undor tho notice of tho Rocordor at tho Central Criminal Court . A tradesman named Frodorick Lee , of Brownlow-stroet , Drnry-lano , had

boon summonod to sorvo on tho potty jury at tho sessions . Instead of attonding himsolf ho sent a man iu his omploymont , named Cuss . This man porsonatod Loo , and actually sorvod as a juror . It is statod ho was ono of tho jury who triod tho tailors . Tho fraud was discovered , and was brought under tho notice of tho Recordor . Aftor somo consideration , his lordship ordorod Cuss

to pay a fino of £ o , and Loo to pay a fino of £ 100 . Tho procoss against Loo , howovor , is not to bo issuod until tho first day of tho next sossions , when it is to bo dotorminod whothor tho two mon should not bo indicted for conspiracy . It is suggostod that tho proceedings in ovory trial in which Cuss took part aro void An inquest was hold on tho body of Mrs .

Roborts and tho two children whom sho murdered in Chostorstreot , Konnington . Tho evidence loft no doubt that when ths wrotchod woman killed hersolf and her children sho was insano . Tho jury returned a vordict to that effect . Tho notorious Broadhoad has rocoivod tho first instalment of tho punishment which inovitably awaits him—his indemnity notwithstanding . The

liconsing magistrates of Shoffiold havo rofusod to ronow Broadboad ' s liconso , on tho ground that ho was not a fit and proper porson to kcop a public-house . Tho Abyssinian expedition ¦ appears to bo dotorminod upon . Tho Admiralty havo issuod invitations for tenders for troopships . Tho tenders aro to bo sont in b y the 27 th inst . At a meeting of the general committee of the Tailors' Association , held on the 24 th inst ., for the purpose of taking into consideration the effect of the recent trials on tbe nosition of

the strike , it was determined to continue the strike until it shall be brought to a successful termination . Mr . Murphy , the anti-Popery lecturer , seems to be doing his utmost to provoke another riot in Birmingham . Being hooted at by a hostile crowd , he threatened to take the law into his own hands , and menaced the people with a revolver . At one of his lectures

his opponents amongst the audience were threatened with firearms . At the lecture on the 23 rd instant Murphy and his friends were driven from the platform by a volley of eggs from an indignant crowd , and the interference of the police was necessitated . The promised Order in Council , in reference to the cattle plague , was issued in a supplement

to the London Gazette on the 26 th inst . The order is very lengthy . It gives oft ' oct to tho provisions of tho Contagious Disoasos ( Animals ) Bill , which was passed last session . Hubbard Lingloy was hung at Norwich on tho 26 th inst . for tho murdor of his undo . Tho -wrotchod man sooms to havo boon thoroughly ponitont . A great crowd assomblod to see him

stranglod . An inquost was oponod on tho 27 th inst . at Alton on tho' body of tho littlo girl Adams who was so brutally murdered and mutilated . A good doal o £ ovidonco was given , all tending to implicate tho mau who is in custody , Frodorick Baker . Tho jury , lato in tho ovoning , found a vordict of wilful murdor against him , and ho was committed to tako his trial . Tho horrible affair

has causod groat oxcitomont in tho district . Tho chargo against John Orwin , lato master of tho brig Copse , of Sunderland , of having attempted to murdor ' ono of tho crow named Crickmoro , was furthor hoard at tho Thames

Policecourt . Somo additional ovidonco was adduced . Mr . Paget dismissod tho caso , stating that he boliovod tho prosecutor Crickmoro was labouring undor monomania . On tho 2 Sth inst . Earl Granville distributed the prizes to the successful competitois under the Oxford local examinations at Manchester . His lordship did not think that Manchester took

sufficient advantage of the opportunities afforded by these local examinations , and he strongly urged the necessity for a much greater spread of scientific education in the country . The Birmingham Musical Festival , which began on the 27 th inst ., was continued on the 2 Sth inst . It promises to be one of the most successful of these grand musical gatherings . Not only

are several of tbo best works of older composers done , but new works by Professor Sterndale Bennett and Mr . J . F . Barnett aro being produced . The pecuniary success of the festival seems to be certain . FOREIGX INTELLIGENCE . —According to a telegram from Salzburg , Queen Alctoria is to visit Paris early in October next ,

there to meet the Emperor Napoleon and the Emperor and Empress of Austria . Tho two Emperors are supposed to have come to an understanding that they will endeavour to prevent the union of South Germany and tbe North German Confederation , and will foster the formation of a South German Bund , under the leadership of Austria . It is difficult to believe that

Austria has entered into any such fatuous compact . Any endeavours of the kind could not fail to be regarded by Prussia as levelled against her , and they would bs resisted accordingly . Moreover , German unity is the thing most dear to Germans North and South , though it may be looked npon with dislike , if not fear , by France . Such au arrangement as that said to

have been made at Salxburg would then give Prussia the place of protectress of German unity , and would make the South Germans rise to a man against France and Austria . How Austria would faro on tho other hand is another matter . Russia would not bo likely to loso such an opportunity , and , in alliance with Prussia , would probably stamp Austria out of oxistonco . Tho Sahbuig interview is Tho Emperor andEmpr o