The Week.

schools of the parish , but tho Bishop of the diocese ( Peterborough ) took prompt measures to close the pulpit against him . Inhibitions were served upon the local clergy and the churchwardens , and Dr . Colenso recognising the grave position of affairs , decided to come down to Leicestershire merely on a friendly visit to Mr . Johnson , the vicar of Claybrook . His

appearance at Claybrook on Saturday , however , excited alarm , and an attempt was made by the Bishop ' s agent to serve a document of some sort upon him . Foiled on the Saturday , the agent on the following clay intercepted Bishop Colenso while on his way to the church . His lordship again evaded service , but the agent followed him to the altar , and while the right rev .

prelate was kneeling there engaged in private devotion , the paper was flung before him . He did not , of course , preach ; that duty was performed by the Curate , Avho took the opportunity of declaring that he and \ T icar warmly sympathised with the theological views of the Bishop of Natal . In the evening , his Lordship , finding the church shut against him , addressed a

large congregation in the open air . Another curious ecclesiastical scene , in which men of a very different type figured , was witnessed on the same day . "Brother Ignatius" was announced to preach at Mr . Stuart ' s church in Munster-square , on S unday morning , but the eccentric " Benedictine " sent an apology to the effect that he was suffering from sore

throat and could not fulfil his engagement . Mr . Stuart was very sceptical on tbe subject of this illness , and intimated as much from the pulpit . "When I asked him , " he said , "to preach here last summer , and engaged to give him what might be collected for his mission , about £ 150 being raised , he had no sore throat ; but , as the offertory collection to-day was to be on behalf the Church of St . Mary Magdalene , poor Brother Ignatius lias got a sore throat . "

In the alleged swindling case in the City , Messrs . Montagna and Co . —that is to say , Charles Davis and James Coopercharged with getting extensive samples and making money of them , have been committed for trial by Sir . Alderman Lusk , who showed his opinion of the case by refusing to reduce the bail . Our readers will remember the Dietrichstein case , in which it was alleged that Mr . Sigismund Dietrichstein had swindled two City houses out of a large sum of money which was due to them for shares sold to him . The accused loft the

country and went to Austria , where the authorities refused to give him up , trying him , however , for the alleged crime committed here . He was acquitted , and subsequently was the means of restoring to the prosecutors a considerable amount of the property . On his return to England he was on Monday brought up at the Mansion House , when the prosecutors formally withdrew from the case , and the prisoner's solicitor said

he was rather the victim than the wrong-doer . Of course , failing a prosecution , the prisoner was discharged . So ends a case that promised to be a remarkable one . An officer of Marines was on Wednesday charged at the Mansion House with threatening to murder a waitress at a tavern in Leadenball Market . His counsel alleged in defence that he had lately

returned from India , and that drink always affected his head . The sitting alderman remanded the prisoner , saying it was only through restraint the fell purpose had not been carried into execution . The Asia has brought the news that Midler's examination had terminated , that he had been surrendered to the British authorities , and that he was to be brought to

England by the Ftna , which was to sail from New York on the 3 rd wst ., and Avhich has arrived at Queonstown . The " accessory" in the murder of Mr . Briggs is again remanded . The drunken fellow who confessed his complicity Avas on AAr ednesday hrought up at AVorahip-street , when the landlord of the

house to which the wounded Mr . Briggs was brought testified that the prisoner had never for five minutes together left his house . He was again remanded . On Saturday night last a fatal occurrence took place at the Portland-road station of the Metropolitan Railway . A young woman named Emma Gollop got , or fell , under a moving train ,

and when the body was taken up it was found to be shockingly mutilated , life of course being extinct . It is variously asserted that the unfortunate young woman fell on the line while endeavouring to enter one of the carriages , that she deliberately threw herself there Avith a view to self-destruction , and that she was pushed beneath the train by a man who immediately

made off up the staircase of the station . The man Powell , alleged to have been in the company of the unfortunate woman " has been discovered . As there is no charge against the man , nothing has been done beyond keeping in view his whereabouts .

A shocking disclosure of vice and immorality was made on Saturday last in the Clerkenwell Police-court apropos of a charge of assault made against Mrs . Anne Brown , " a fashionably-attired woman , residing at 60 , Bernard-street , Eussellsquare , " by Mrs . Florence Ayre . It appears that the complainant is the daughter of Captain Tuthill , who , it was stated ,

lived with the defendant iu a state of adultery , his own wife having recently consented to live in the same house Avith the pair . The daughter of the Tuthills , the complainant in the present case , had separated from her husband , after being married some eleven months , and was now accused of living with a man of the name of Kerridge . Her father had obtained

possession of her child ancl refused to give it up , and her calling at his house for it A \ as the cause of the assault complained of . The magistrate thought that a bond of £ 50 to keep the peace for six months would meet the justice of the case . In a subsequent

charge arising out of the same discreditable affair , Tuthill was fined 20-s-. and costs for assaulting one Randall , a co . iehman . . A shocking discovery has been made at Chelsea , k short time ago a man , named Moss , hired an unfurnished room , which he occupied with his three sisters . Little was seen of tho Avomen , and latterly the landlord noticed that a strong stench emanated from the room . This has been all explained ; Moss stated that one

of his sisters had died lately , and another soon after , and that he had allowed the bodies to lie in the room as he could not get a surgeon's certificate . A post-mortem examination showed that in both cases death had been caused by starvation . An awful calamity has befallen the village of Chatteris , in Cambridgeshire . On AVednesday forenoon a fire broke out in a strawstack , ancl the wind being high , the flames were carried to the

houses and cottages adjoining . Notwithstanding every effort , in the short space of two hours upwards of seventy houses wero laid in ashes , and fourscore families deprived of a home , and , in many instances , of all they possessed in the world . An aggravating feature in the evil is that tho fire is believed to have been the act of an incendiary . The two condemned ,

murderers , Myers and Sargisson , were hanged on Saturday in front ofthe Leeds Gaol . They were the first men sentenced to death at the newly-appointed assizes of the town . The evidence in . each case was perfectly clear , and the prisoners themselves admitted the justice of their condemnation , although one of them , Sargisson , maintained to the last that his accomplice in the

murder of John Cooper had taken a more active part in that deed than himself . In Myers's case the only witness of the murder was his own little girl , who saw him cut her mother's throat , and Avho Avas obliged to come forward and give fatal evidence against her father . Both men showed a disposition to comply with the exhortations of their religious advisers , and Avere visited while in prison by the Bishop of Eipon , AA-ho spent