The Week.

lad a shilling for the suffering he underwent . Surely such a case ought to be fully inquired into , and those who are to blame punished . Who were they who refused to allow the mother to say what she knew of her son ? " Black beer . " Such is the title of a case in the Shoreditch County Court . In connection with the transfer of a beershop , the plaintiff , Smith , claimed

from Jackson , the defendant , the value of the gas and of a cask of "black beer . " AVell might the judge ask what black beer wis ; and well may non-teetotalers feel indignant when they learn that it was what beershop-keepers use for " colouring the beer . " His Honour only allowed the claim for the gas . A formidable addition to the Italian navy was made on

Saturday last . The Millwall Ironworks and Shi pbuilding Company launched from their yard at Millwall an iron-clad frigate , the Affoiidatore . She is fitted with two cupolas on Captain Cowper ' Coles ' s plan , and will carry two ten-ton guns From her bow projects a huge beak , which would be fatal to mrst ships against which it might be driven . She is beautifully

modelled . At a luncheon which followed the launch , a letter was read from the Italian Minister in London , in the course of which he praised very highly tbe workmanship of the Millwall Company . A serious accident happened on Friday evening , the 3 rd inst ., to the goods tunnel of the London and Northwestern Railway at Liverpool . This tunnel runs from

Edgehill to Park Lane , ancl thence to the clocks . On the evening in question , about half way between Edge-hill and Park Lane , a sewer burst through the wall of the tunnel , rendering it impassible for twenty or thirty yards . The accident will cause a good deal of trouble in repairing the injury it has done . The piratical career of the Shenandoah is at an end . Most unexpectedly she turned up in the Mersey , and Capt . Waddell surrendered her at once to the captain of the Donegal , the

guard-ship of the Mersey . It is stated that Waddell professed not to have known until his arrival of the termination of the war iu America . In consequence of the death of Mr . Commissioner Fonblanquo the sittings in his court were adjourned on Monday , the 6 th inst . The late Mr . Fonblanqiie had been connected with the administration of bankruptcy law for a period of fifty years . He was also well known as an

accomplished journalist . Monday being Guy Fawkes day , there was the usual juvenile celebration of the event in the streets . Every year the display becomes more tawdry and apparently less profitable to the youngsters , who care more for pence than Protestantism . There were numerous police charges growing out of the too frequent and public use of fireworks .

At Bow-street , on- Monday , one Thomas Robertson , a deserter from the Fusilier Guards , was charged with having been in the officers' quarters of St . James's Palace for an unlawful purpose . The prisoner , it appeared , had paid a visit to the bedrooms , and was about to make his exit from the building when he was stopped by a waiter and interrogated . He told two

distinct stories , neither of which was true , and Mr . Vaughan sentenced him to three months' hard labour . On Tuesday the then Lord Mayor presided at the Mansion House over an important meeting in reference to middle class education . The object of the meeting was to take steps to establish middle class schools in the City . The Rev . VV .

Rogers made in interesting speech on the subject , and pointed out that there were many charitable endowments in the City Avhich did not accomplish the objects for which they were founded , and which , applied for the purpose of middle class education , would enable all to be clone that was required . Resolutions in accordance with the object of the meeting were passed . On Tuesday forenoon the Pneumatic Railway between Holborn-hill and Euston-square was formally opened

The distance is somewhat over two miles , and the time required for the transmission of parcels about seven minutes . The new railway is expected to facilitate greatly the business of the post-office . There is every reason to believe that Mr Registrar VVinslow will be elevated to the Commissionership of Bankruptcy rendered vacant hy the death of Mr , Fonblanque . The final arrangements will not be made until

after the funeral of the late Commissioner . In the Court of Queen ' s Bench on Tuesday , Mr . Edwin James Q . C ., revived the case of Morgan v . Chetwynd by moving for a rule nisi calling upon the plaintiff to show cause why tbe verdict should not be reversed or a new trial granted . It will be remembered that in this case Mr . Chetwynd was found

liable for goods supplied to his wife . The rule was granted . At Bow-street on Tuesday , James Murphy was charged with attempting to murder Mary Anne Jennings , in Covent Garden . As the unfortunate young woman has not yet recovered , the prisoner was again remanded . The Valentin case was in the Court of Exchequer again on Tuesday . Mr . Bovill

was showing cause why there should not bo a new trial in the case Bouillon v . Valentin . He had not concluded his arguments when the court rose , and the case stands over till the next new trial paper day . Some time ago the clerk to a solicitor at the West-end forged a signature to a cheque for £ G 20 . The cheque was paid iu Bank of England notes , which the forger

changed for gold . He then sailed in a vessel for Lisbon . Fortunately the police found Avhere he had gone to , and telegraphed to Lisbon to have him stopped . This was done , and though he cannot be brought back here , the whole of the money he obtained has been got by the Portuguese police . An extraordinary case was brought under the notice of the magistrate at Lambeth police-court on Tuesday hy Mr . Edward

Meade , jun ., who holds an appointment in the Bank of England On the evening of October 8 th , Mr . Meade met his wife by appointment in the transept at the Crystal Palace . They were sitting at one of the refreshment tables , when a detective on duty at the Palace came up to them , and charged them with endeavouring to pick pockets . Vainly they denied the charge .

They were marched as culprits down the building , and , after being kept for some time in a room , were taken to the policestation . There , after some time had elapsed , the detective declined to press the charge . Mr . Meade demanded that he should publicly apologise , and as he had not done so , Mr . Meade applied for a summons against him for

exceeding his duty . The summons was allowed to him . It appears that Sir Edwin Landseer was a passenger in the express train which got into collision with a goods train on tho Manchester , Sheffield , and Lincolnshire Railway on Monday . Sir Edwin received a severe cut over his eye , but he is in no sense dangerously hurt . A case was tried at the Middlesex

sessions which shows the danger of leaving houses in the sole care of young servant girls . A girl named Binks and a woman named Reid were tried , the former for stealing and the latter for receiving , bed linen , clothes , and other property , belonging to Mr . Thomas West . Binks pleaded guilty . She had been left in charge of her master ' s house while he and Mrs . West

were out of town . The woman Reid came to her , and on pretence of telling her fortune induced the girl to lend her several articles of wearing apparel and other things . Of course these articles were never returned ; instead , they were pledged . These facts were proved , ancl Binks was sentenced to three months' imprisonment , while Reid was ordered to be imprisoned with hard labour for two years . On Tuesday Mr . Payne , the coroner , held four inquests on the bodies of four infant children who had been foully murdered . In neither