The Week.

note" from his former master . The men regard this as a direct mode of reducing them to thraldom ; they designate the note by the opprobrious name of ticket of leave , and a meeting of operatives to resist it was held on Friday evening at Nottingham , when resolutions were passed to resist the system and to appeal to their comrades throughout the country for aid . A case of some importance was tried at the Middlesex Sessions

on Wednesday . A pauper in the Greenwich Union , named John Sherman , was charged with having deserted Julia Ilannan and her child . The woman was a pauper whom the guardians of the Greenwich Union desired to remove to Cork , and Sherman was entrusted with the warrant for her conveyance there . He took her on board the steamer for Cork , in the Thames , in

the first week in December , and paid her deck fare , giving her very scant provision for the journey . She had only been confined of her child a month at the time , and but for the kindness of the mate of the vessel , who allowed her to go into his cabin , she must have suffered fearfully from cold and exposure . The Assistant-Judge held that the charge against Sherman ,

who had only obeyed the orders he had received , could not be sustained , and he was acquitted . The conduct of the guardians was , however , strongly condemned . At the Marlboroughstreet Police-court on Wednesday , John Wright was charged with stealing a diamond bracelet , the property of Lady Honoria Cadogan . At the time the robbery took place the prisoner was

engaged in making a valuation , at the residence of the late Earl of Cadogan . The prisoner was remanded . A most extraordinary system of robbery was discovered last week at Huddersfield . It appears that for some time past the manufacturers exhibiting their goods in the Cloth Hall of the borough have missed portions of their goods , and so skilfully contrived was the theft that all efforts to detect the thief proved fruitless .

A slight suspicion was at last excited against one of the exhibiting manufacturers , and this clue being cleverly and patiently followed up by a most ingenious contrivance the suspected individual was detected with stolen goods in his possession . His father , father-in-law , and a friend of his , are all implicated in the" charge . The case is still under investigation . Two men were tried at the Wicklow Quarter Sessions on Saturday

last on a charge of violently breaking into the house of a Protestant clergyman . It appeared that the object of the men was the vulgar one of plunder ; but as they had their faces blackened and administered oaths of silence to the servants , the magistrates treated the case as near akin to " Whiteboyism , " and sentenced the prisoners to penal servitude for ten years .

A case of some interest was heard in the Bankruptcy Court on Wednesday . A Mr . Coleman appeared on his own petition , and it appeared that among his creditors was the celebrated Blondin , to whom he had acted as Treasurer , and whose money to the extent of £ 12 , 000 had been invested in the business . An attempt was made by some of the other creditors to prove

that Blondin was really a partner with Coleman , but the proof failed , and the rope-dancer was admitted as a creditor on the estate . An extraordinary robbery is reported from Shrewsbury . One day last week a person , who gave the name of Morgan , and said he was a constable from Carmarthen , visited Shrewsbury , and , putting himself in communication with the

superintendent of police , stated that he held a warrant for the apprehension of a thief , who , he had reason to believe , was then staying at an hotel in the town . He obtained the assistance of one of the Shrewsbury constables , and proceeded to the bouse he had mentioned . There they found a young gentleman , whom Morgan declared to be the person he " wanted . " The prisoner was searched , and his gold watch and a considerable sum of money were taken from him . He stated that his name

was Charles Ashworth , and when ho was brought before the magistrates , he asked in vain that he should be allowed to telegraph to his friends in Manchester . He was remanded , Morgan representing that it would be advisable not to allow him to communicate with any one , as there was an " accomplice" at large . It was soon ascertained that Mr . Ashworth . was the son of a most respectable man in Manchester , and ,

on inquiry , it was found that no such robbery as that stated had taken place at Carmarthen , and that no person of the name of Morgan was known to the police . When Mr . Ackworth was brought up on remand , of course Morgan did not appear . Morgan , through the stupidity of the magistrates and police of Shrewsbury , was allowed to get clear off with the booty .

The inquest on the body of Michael Harrington , who was stabbed by the Italian , Serafini Polioni , on Monday week , has been concluded . The same witnesses who appeared before the police magistrate were again examined by the coroner , and they gave the same evidence . The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against the Italian , and he was committed

to take his trial at the Central Criminal Court . -A shocking murder occurred last week in the camp at Aldersbot . An artilleryman named Dumphy was in hospital suffering from insanity , and was under the charge of two of his comrades . About six o'clock in the morning he got out of bed , aud grasped the poker , and on one of his keepers advancing to take it from

him , he struck him on the head and brained him . He then advanced on the other , wdio saved his life by jumping out of the window . The unfortunate lunatic was soon after removed . His victim was quite dead . The captain and mate of a Russian vessel lying at Grimsby were suffocated in their beds by the fumes of charcoal on Friday night . There was charcoal burning in a stove in their cabin , and the mate , before " turning

in , " put a cap over the funnel . In the morning both men were found to be dead . A fire broke out in the Hanoverstreet Mills at Preston on Saturday morning , just as the workpeople were about to commence work , which lias had the effect of throwing about 200 people out of employment . A steam-boat collision took place on Thursday week , in the Clyde , near Gourock , by which the Farl of Carlisle ran

down the Guy Fawlces in mid channel , and four men were drowned . There appears to have been some misunderstanding as to the course the vessels should steer , and it is said there was also some delay in the crew of the JEarl of Carlisle lowering their boat to pick up the drowning men . Official accounts received at the Admiralty report the

melancholy news of the shipwreck of her Majesty ' s steamer JSacehorse on the coast of China , when only nine persons , including the commander , were saved out of a crew of 108 . From the despatches received , it appears that the vessel struck on a rock in comparatively calm weather , but that immediately after the accident the sea rose , the vessel was broken in pieces , and

though the crew to the last calmly and steadily obeyed orders , the end was that only nine reached the shore in safety . A dreadful accident occurred at Dundee on Monday night . A great crowd had collected in front of a concert-room , which is entered by descending a flight of thirteen steps . When the door was opened , those in the rear pressed forward , and the

persons who stood in front were thrown headlong down the stairs . Nineteen men and women were crushed to death , while many others were seriously injured . A fine young girl , seventeen years of age , named Jane Louisa Antrobus , has been burnt to death through wearing greatly distended skirts . She was passing in front of the fireplace in the room of a friend when her dress swept against the grate , and in an instant her clothes were in flames . The injuries she sustained caused