The Week.

system , and he asks them to " consider whether our Church will not be best strengthened by making , after due deliberation and be competent authority , any changes which are proved to be required , and then maintaining what is not changed , > no longer in mere dread of innovation , but on grounds of good argument as being right in itself . "

It is now a quarter of a century since the London Sailors ' Home , near the London Docks , was opened . Its advantages have been increasingly apparent ever since ; its apartments are constantly crowded , and scores of seamen are turned away nightly for want of room . The directors resolved on an enlargement of the premises , which it is estimated will cost

£ 10 , 000 . On Tuesday , Lord Palmerston laid the foundationstone of the proposed enlargement , and iu reply to an address which was presented to him , enlarged on the national importance of providing , as this institution did , for the physical and moral well-being of our sailors . The Bishop of London was also present and took part in the proceedings . The idea of a

¦ new street from Charing-cross to the Thames embankment , which was the subject of so much controversy some time ago , is not abandoned . Some members of the Metropolitan Board of Works proposed at their last meeting that plans for the new street should be prepared . A conversation ensued , which ended in the adoption of a suggestion made by the chairman that the

whole subject of the approaches to the embankment should be referred to the embankment committee . The county of Surrey has up to this time been without any other medical or surgical establishment than the metropolitan hospitals of Guy's and St . Thomas's . Advantage was taken of the excitement caused by the death of the Prince Consort to raise subscriptions for a county hospital dedicated to the Prince ' s memory and bearing his name . The foundation stone was laid on Monday

in the neighbonrnood of Guildford by the high sheriff of the county , in the presence of a large and influential assembly . . It appears from the report read by the Honorary Secretary at the meeting of the Central Relief Committee , that -during the past mouth , 21 local committees have either suspended operations or given notice of their intention to do so in the course of the present week . There are now 235 , 82-7 operatives on full

time , 121 , 718 on short time , and 17 S , 205 out of work , compared with 234 , 641 in full work , 125 , 087 on short time , and 1 S 0 , 729 wholly unemployed in the last week of Juno . There is a further considerable diminution in the number of persons receiving assistance from the guardians and the relief committees , but notwithstanding the gradual improvement which has taken

¦ p lace in this respect , there are still 214 , 115 persons in receipt of relief . The report states "that wherever out-door employment has been provided by the local committees , the operatives have soon become not only skilled in their new occupation but their physical condition has been greatly improved . Paymaster Smales , of the Inniskilling Dragoons , who

was condemned by the extraordinary court - martial at Mhow , has received a " free pardon . " He will not , we presume , be restored to his old regiment , but an opening will , no doubt , be found for him elsewhere iu the service . A curious discovery of gold coins appears to have been made , in the precincts of AVestminster Abbey . A labourer has been

brought before Mr . Arnold on the eharere of having concealed-and disposed of a quantity of gold coins which he found hid iu the groin of an arch in the cloisters he was employed to pull clown . The man appears to have honestly , believed he was entitled to keep the coins , aud he very generously admitted his fellow-workmen to a share of the profits . It is unfortunate , however , that the coins , which were of great value , should have been dispersed in this way . The only one

produced was a rose noble of Edward IV . in excellent preservation . Mr . Arnold discharged the man , no inquest having been held on the treasure trove as required by law . In the "Swinfen case , " the Master of the Rolls has given judgment against Mr . Kennedy , holding that the learned gentlemen had exercised undue influence over Mrs . Broun ( formerly Swinfen ) . The deed conveying the reversion of the Swinfen estates to Mr . Kennedy

has therefore been ordered to be cancelled , the learned defendant to pay all the costs of the case . ——Michael Lyons , the Irish schoolmaster who made a fearful attack upon- two fellow passengers in a railway train near Bletchley , has been' committed for trial . The evidence given before the Newport Pagnell magistrates shows that the struggle was more deadly than

report at first represented . It was stated that the prisoner had formerly been confined in a lunatic asylum . An inquest has been held on a child alleged to have been murdered by her mother in Marylebone-place yesterday . It appeared that she had been seduced by Mr . Ckappell , whose name she bore , and that his desire to sever the connection between them was in

some measure the cause of the tragedy . The j ury returned a verdict of wilful murder against the mother . We regret to have to report another dreadful railway accident . On Monday night , a train on the Lynn and Hunstanton Railway was approaching the former town , when it ran against a bullock that had strayed upon the line ; several

carriages were thrown off the rails ; six persons were killed , while about twelve others were seriously injured . The great case of Lord Egmont against Sir Wm . Darrell , which has occupied the attention both of the English and Irish Courts for several months past , has at last been settled by a compromise . The last Lord Egmont , it may be remembered , left his Irish estates , which were then much encumbered , to his agent ,

the late Sir Edward Tiemey , from whom they descended by marriogo to the present possessor , Sir William Darell . After the , , lapse of , several years , the present Lord Egmone , shortly after the death of some intermediate relations made him heir at luw to the deceased nobleman , impeached the will as obtained by-fraud and misrepresentation . The latest phase of the case

was proceeding in the Irish courts before Mr . Justice Keogh , and we now learn that the trial has been stopped ic consequence of the parties agreeing to a compromise , the terms of which were understood to be that Lord Egmont was to get the estotes on payment to Sir William Dnrell of £ 125 , 000 and the costs af the suit . Joseph Howes , who stood charged with the murder

of his wife in the Blackfriars-rood , a few weeks ago , was yesterday tried for the same at the Surrey Assizes , at Croydon , and found guilty of manslaughter . The judge sentenced him to penal servitude for ten years . It may be remembered that the crime arose out of a drunken quarrel , and that the woman , falling from he . t husband's blow , struck her head upon the

fender , where she lay insensible till she died . About ten days ago a woman named Berridge was strangled in a bouse in Pentonville , and the suspicion arose that she had been murdered by a man named Best , with whom she formerly cohabited . The inquest wrs resumed and brought to a close on Wednesday , and as the evidence adduced tended to show that Best was

absent from the house at the time tbe woman died , and as it was possible she might have taken her own life , the jury returned an opeu verdict . ¦ FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —An anonymous pamphlet from Roland has just made its appearance in Paris . The writer states that France , Austria , and England are thoroughly united on the Polish question , and " the word of France , " we are told , " is pledged that serious amelioration shall be effected in the condition of the Poles . " Prussia is sternly reminded of " the am