The Week.

An inquest was held on Tuesday , but the inquiry was adjourned . Some clays since tbe portmanteau of a gentleman staying at the Star and Garter Hotel , Boulogne , was broken open , and bank notes to a considerable amount were abstracted . It was not until the following day that the robbery was discovered , and suspicion at once fell upon a person named Morris , who six hours previously had taken his passage

in a steamer for London . A telegram to this city was sent , the steamer was boarded coming up the river , Morris ^ was captured , and a large part of the booty was recovered . The thief was handed over b y the Lord Mayor , under the Extradition Treaty , to be dealt with by the French police . Thus much for the value of tbe telegraph . An inquest was

held on Thursday , the 14 th inst ., at Kingsland , on the body of a child named Hayes , whose death it was said had been caused by ill-treatment . The mother ofthe child died three years ago , ancl the father cohabited with a woman named Jeffreys . Witnesses stated that this woman beat the child savagely , and did not give it enough to eat . The medical evidence was to

the effect that death had been caused by disease of the lungs , but it had no doubt been accelerated by starvation and illusage . The jury iu their verdict censured Jefferys and the father of the child severely . Tbe Government has taken active measures to suppress the socalled Fenianism in Ireland . Ou Friday night , the . 15 th inst .,

tho police made a descent upon the office of the Irish People a wretched newspaper , in which sedition and bad grammar have been going hand iu hand for some time . The publication of the paper was stopped , the types and presses seized , and several persons who were found on the premises were taken into custody . Ou Saturday morning last several other arrests were made in Dublin , ancl the prisoners were brought up at the police

court ancl remanded for a week . In Cork , too , several arrests are saicl to have been made . The cattle plague still makes progress . The City authorities are anxious to do all in their power to stop it , but difficulties arise . The residents in the neighbourhoods where [ it is proposed to erect sanatoria object most strongly , and their objections will

have weight . Meanwhile the London cowhouses are decimated . On Saturday last , at the Clerkenwell ancl Southwark police courts , cowkeepers were fined for sending out diseased animals . The foundation stone of a new convalescent hospital was laid at Bournemouth on Saturday last . The hospital is intended as a memorial of the late Lord Herbert of Lea . The

stone was laid by his son , tbe Earl of Pembroke , who delivered a brief but touching address on the occasion . Mr . Sotheron Estcourt , the Bishop of Oxford , the Bishop of Salisbury , and several members of Parliament were present at the ceremony and at a luncheon which took place afterwards . There have been several complaints made against a

man named Kellaway , the porter of the East London Union , and now we have another . A poor woman was sont by the Lord Mayor , on Thursday , the 14 th inst ., with an order of admission to the union . On Friday she came before his lordship , and stated that not only had Kellaway refused to admit her but that he bad treated her with much violence and torn her

clothes . Kellaway was directed to attend at the Mansion House on the following Saturday , ancl then be denied that he had behaved ill to the woman . He admitted that he had refused to admit her . A summons was issued against him for tbe assault , and the cass will be heard this week . In addition to the arrests which have taken place at Dublin

and Cork , a number of foolish young men have been apprehended at Wexford on a charge of illegal drilling . According to the evidence of a Mr . Carey and of another eye-witness , the

drilling took place within two hundred yards of one of the most frequented places in Wexford , and , oddly enough , not far far from a Friends' meeting-house . The prisoners were committed for trial . An inquest was held on Monday on the body of George AVallace . The deceased bad been employed in a granary , and was suffocated hy a fall of grain upon him . When his body was found his face had been dreadfully gnawed by

rats . The jury returned a verdict of accidental death . A clergyman was defendant inamost disgraceful case heardatTaverham , ^ Norfolk , on Saturday last . The Rev . Samuel Hayward , vicar of Salthouse and Wroxham , was charged with assaulting Sarah Webster , a girl about twenty years of age . The evidencs showed that the defendant had seduced the- girl while

she was servant in his house , and that she had borne a child , of which he was the father . As he refused to pay a doctor ' s bill for her she went to his house to ask him for money , when be pushed her out , kicked her , and tore her clothes . The rev . defendant was fined £ 10 , or in default of payment three months' imprisonment . A question of some

importance was decided at the Lambeth police-court . Mr . Lane , a collector of taxes in St . Mary , Newington , was summoned hy a ratepayer for levying two executions for two taxes , when one would have sufficed . It was shown that the defendant had applied for a general rate and a poor's rate , and as they were not

paid he called in the broker , who levied under separate executions for each rate . This was the offence complained of , and Mr . Elliott decided that it was illegal . It was stated , however , that no part of the costs had gone into the pocket of Mr . Lane , and therefore the summons against him was dismissed . The broker undertook to return the costs of one of the executions . A little girl named Sarah Ann Young has

died of fright . She went with her mother to the church of St . George ' s-in-the-East—the mother intending to be churched . When the clergyman entered in his surplice the little girl screamed with fright . She was removed from the church , but never recovered , and died shortly afterwards . A coroner ' s jury found a verdict in accordance with these facts .

The trial of John Currie for the murder of Major cle Vere took place at the Central Criminal Court on \ A ednesday . The evidence for the prosecution was , of course , conclusive , and no attempt was made to gainsay it , but Mr . Sleigh set up the plea of insanity . The jury returned a verdict of guilty , and the prisoner was sentenced to death . Another case tried was

that of Sarah Geats , who was charged with attempting to shoot James Giles . The prisoner had worked for the prosecutor , who is a shoemaker , she being dressed as a man . AVhen Giles discovered her sex ho put her to manage a business . This was not successful , and she was dismissed . Annoyed at this , she attempted to shoot hiin . She was found

guilty , and sentenced to live years' penal servitude . The prisoners who are charged with conspiring to utter forged Russian bank notes were brought up again at the Lambeth police-court on AVednesday . Several witnesses were examined to prove that the prisoners were working together , and that forged bank notes were found in the house

where tbey were arrested . They were again remanded . Most , if not all of them are Jews , and an application was made to the magistrate to order that they might meet together for devotional purposes — that day being the Jewish New Year ' s Day . Mr . Elliott saicl the prison authorities must decide on the matter . Prince Alfred has abandoned his intention

to visit Constantinople . The prevalence of the cholera in that city has no doubt occasioned this change in his plans . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The Pope has returned to Rome