The Week.

after a hot pursuit of one hundred and forty miles in five days , but the telegram does not say that the slippery rebel chief was captured . The Kirwee rebels had been dispersed by Genl . AVhitloek , and their leaders Rajah Govind and his brother , were slain . The China neivs is very meagre . A fire has occurred in the factory of Hine , Mundolls , and Co ., at Nottingham , the flames lighting the country for many miles . The damage sustained is immense ; all the machinery is destroyed , together with the factory and the unfinished goods . Several hundreds of

workpeople are thrown out of employment -An inquest was held last iveek at Cam- ' berwell , on the body of Mary Aim Hearn . James , the brother of the deceased , being about to go out shooting , had laid a gun loaded on the table , and while in the act o £ lifting it , the weapon went off . The sister received the contents in her head , and expired . The jury returned a verdict of "death by misadventure . " A Court of Criminal Appeal sat on Saturday to hear the case " The Queen v . Skeen and Freeman . " The prisoners had been convicted at the Central Criminal

Court of feloniously appropriating bills of lading , in reference to a quantity of timber , and this was an appeal against the conviction , on the ground that the " disclosures" which they made before the Court of Bankruptcy , and ivhich they were obliged to make under the Bankrupt Act , bad been , in violation o £ that act , used against them , and that therefore the conviction was bad . The judgment of the Court was delivered by Lord Campbell in favour of the conviction , and as the majority of thejudges-were in favour of the conviction , it AA-as affirmed . The

application for a neiv trial on the ground of misdirection as to the law of condonation in the extraordinary case , " Keats v . Keats and Montezuma , " was heard before a full bench in the Divorce Court on Saturday . The Court affirmed the direction of the judge and the verdict of the jury , and refused a neiv trial . A decree of dissolution of the marriage was then ordered to issue . The Court of Bankruptcy was occupied on Saturday with it petition to wind up the affairs of the British and Foreign Smelting Company ( Limited ) , under the Joint-stock Companies . Act , 1856-57 . After heaving counsel in the case the commissioner said be

entertained no doubt of the insolvency of the company , and the order must go . Order to wind up accordingly—costs to stand over until the official liquidator has surplus assets in hand . A man has been arrested for tho murder of AVilson , at Sheffield , which ii-e mentioned last week . He is a brewer ' s traveller , named George Plant , and is said to have been drunk at the time . The coroner ' s jury have found a verdict of " wilful murder" against him . At Manchester a beer-shop keeper ancl funeral mute , named Robinson , has murdered his ivife , hanged himself , and attempted to . set fire to his houseunder the combined influence of drink and

, jealousy . AVhen the crime ivas discovered the man and his AA'ife were . quite dead . At the Central Criminal Court , Thomas AVilliams and Robert Frost were indicted for burglary and wounding Alfred Evorshed , a policeman , in the house they had broken into . The constable bad discovered them in the act of robbing tbe house , and lie at once seized AVilliams , when both tho prisoners made a most ' savage attack upon him , cutting and wounding him so severely , that , becoming faint from loss ni Wood , lie was forced to let them go . They wore speedily

apprehended , however , aud tvere now found guilty ; thoy had also been previously convicted . The judge ordered sentence of death to be recorded , intimating that they must suffer ton years' penal servitude . His lordship ordered 201 . to be gh'en to Evershed for his gallant conduct on the occasion . ——Thomas Birchmore , the St . Pancras defaulter , AA . IS tried on several counts . On some he was acquitted , and on others found guilty . He was sentenced to tivelve months' imprisonment . At the adjourned inquest on the body of Mr . Burrows , killed in a quarrel with Mr .

PlcAvs , in his own shop in the Hampstead-road , the jury returned a verdict of " manslaughter . " Plows was at once taken into custody , and brought before Mr . Long , at Marylebone police court , when he was committed for trial on the charge , bail to the amount of £ 200 being accepted . Colonel Sir Henry Kni ght Storks , K . C . B ., is appointed to succeed Air . Gladstone as Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands , and will , it is said , set out this iveek for his destination . Sir Henry Avas Assistant Adjutant General at the Capo of Good Hope during the Kaffir war in 1846-7 , and was commandant at Scutari ; he was recently secretary