The Week.

THE WEEK .

TnE Cor / BT . —Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse , Princess Helena , Princess Louise , and Princess Beatrice , went to a Gillies' Ball at Abergeldie , given "b y the Prince of Wales , on the evening of tho 29 th ult . Earl Dalhousie and Lady Christian Maule arrived at Balmoral on a visit , and had the honour of dining with the Queen and Royal family . On the SO 6 I 1 ult . His Royal Highness Prince Arthur

arrived at the Castle , attended by the Rev . X Jolly . The Prince and Princess of AVales , Prince John of Glucksburg , and Princess Hilda of Anhalt dined with the Queen and Royal family in the evening . The Queen , accompanied by Princess Louise , and attended by Lady Ely and Colonel de Ros , attended divine service at the parish church of Crathie on the

afternoon of Sunday last . The Rev . Dr . Macfarlane , of the General Assembly , officiated . GENEKAI , HOME NEWS . —Prom the weekly return of mortality issued on Tuesday , it appears that the deaths in the eleven principal towns of the kingdom were 2 , 666 being at the rate of 24 in the thousand . This is slightly higher than the

death rate of last week . London , however , retains its high standard of health , for the deaths here were at the rate of 21 , or three below the average . Bristol is lowest in the death rate , being 19 in the thousand ; Manchester has the bad preeminence of being as high as 3-1 Of the 2 . QGG deaths London contributed 1 , 214 , which is a little below the ten years' average

for that week . The births in all the towns amounted to 4 , 277 , of which 2 , 156 belong to London—this is considerably above the average . A month ago a man named O'Shaughnessy cut his wife ' s throat in Regent-street , Westminster , and afterwards cut his own throat . Ho has been in hospital ever since , his wife having recovered from her wounds some time ago .

O'Shaughnessy was so nearly convalescent on Friday , the 29 th ult ., that he was brought up at the police-court on a charge of attempting to murder his wife . He was committed for trial . The inquest on the body of Mrs . Reeve , of Greenwich , who is supposed to have died from the effects of poison , was resumed on the 28 th ult . Mrs . Reeve died in her confinement , but under circumstances which led to the suspicion of

foul play . A post-mortem examination and subsequent analysis showed that death had been caused by veratria or white hellehore . At the inquest yesterday some further evidence was taken , and the inquiry was again adjourned to await tho result of an analysis by Vrofessor Rodgers of some powders which had been found in the deceased ' s room . Tho election of Lord

Mayor took place on Friday , the 29 th ult . The sermon was preached ky the Rev . Dr . Mortimer . Mr . Alderman Phillips , who , we believe , is a member of the Hebrew persuasion , was unanimously elected chief magistrate for the ensuing year A pseudo German " baron , " whose name has been before the public on several recent occasions , was tried at tbe Middlesex

sessions on a charge of stealing a gold watch . Tbe facts of this particular charge were very simple . The prisoner took lodgings in Tavistock-street , abstracted a watch belonging to the landlady , and pawned it under an assumed name . Tho evidence of the robbery was so conclusive that the prisoner , in a spirit of desperation , denied his own identity . He affirmed that a

countryman of his was so much like him that the one had more than once been mistaken for the other . Tho jury , however , believed that he was the right man , and the Deputy-Assisfcant-Judge gave force to their decision by sentencing " the baron" to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour . The ? enian prisoners were brought up at Dublin on Saturday last . Tbe statement of the case for the Crown was to the effect that the

object of the Fenian organisation was the overthrow of the 1 British rule and the establishment of an Irish republic . One of the means to be adopted was the assassination of many leading men in Ireland , and general massacre of the Catholic clergy . AVithin the last fortnight about £ 3 , 500 had been received in Ireland from America for the purpose of the conspiracy , and while the case was going on the receipt of £ 1 , 400 more was

announced . Pikes had been found , and various documents which implicated more or less the prisoners in the conrt . The man Stephens , who has not been apprehended , seems to have been the leader in Ireland . The informer is a man named Pierce Ragle , who was last employed as a folder in the Irish Beofle office . The prisoners were remanded , and the

proceedings are likely to last for several days . The work of arresting persons suspected of Fenianism does not by any means appear to have ended—two more arrests having been made in Cork , and several in Ulster . At Kingstown on Monday a mau named Patrick Gaffney was charged with having torn down part of a proclamation offering a reward for the apprehension of Stehpens ,

the Fenian leader . The proceedings were enlivened by a sharp altercation between defendant ' s counsel and the magistrate . Tbe prisoner , it appeared , dropped a drill-book , and a MS . headed " The Feuian Men" was found at his residence . The case was adjourned . A mau who gave his name as Frederick Ou'en was brought up at the

Clerkenwell Police-court on Monday on a charge of defrauding wine-merchants and others , and the particulars of his frauds , as brought out in evidence , illustrated in a very striking way the ease with which a rogue , with a dashing exterior and a plausible address , can obtain credit from men whose vocation one would think must teach them sharpness . This young fellow represented that he had come into a large fortune ; that

he had spent all his ready money in furnishing a house ; and that , therefore , he required credit for a short time for further goods he wanted . The tale was swallowed at once , and goods to any extent were furnished to him . Now the bubble has burst his dupes wanted him to be sent for trial before the Central Criminal Court , but the magistrate would only send him to the sessions . About a month ago a man named

Underline , a navvy , was killed by another navvy belonging to an opposition gang- His mates have done what they could to shield him , and have thrown every possible obstruction in the way of the officers of justice . At the instance of the coroner tho Home-office offered a reward of £ 100 for the apprehension of tho murderer . At the Thames Police-court , on Wednesday ,

a navvy , named Noah Gillins , was brought up charged with the murder . Evidence was given in support of the charge , and the prisoner was remanded . The inquest that was begun some time since on the body of a woman named Newton , whose death was said to have been caused by the violence of a tradesman with whom she lived , has been resumed . The

evidence was not very conclusive , and the jury returned a verdict attributing the death to excessive drinking . ——An inquest hag been held on the body of a woman who was found dead in her bed in a lodging-house in Drummond-street , Eustonsquare . A letter found on her , and addressed to the man in whose family she had lived as housekeeper , showed that there

had been a difference between them , and that deceased intended to commit suicide . There was , however , no indication that she had taken anything to cause death . The inquest was adjourned to give time for an analysis of the contents of the stomach . A most horrible case of neglect of a child was brought under the notice of Mr ; Selfe at the Westminster Police-court on Tuesday . About three years ago , a man and his wife , named Riley , died , leaving a bov then only two years old . This child was at