The Week.

tain the facts of the case , and on Saturday reported the result of an interview which he and BIrs . Selfe had had with the girl . It would seem that some twelve months ago the rev . Father Bowden , who had made up his mind that some special measures were necessary for securing the spiritual welfare of the girl , suggested to her that she should leave her mother and seek the

shelter of a "home . " The suggestion was not at that tim e acted upon , but on the 29 th ult . the girl disappeared from her mother's house , and , as it afterwards turned out , became an inmate of a conventual institution . The case wore a very disagreeable appearance ; but Bir . Selfe stated on Saturday that , although Father Bowden had acted imprudently in counselling

the girl to leave home without the knowledge of her natural guardian , "in other respects he acted quite properly , knowing her position and the state of her mind . " As for the girl herself , " ill the whole affair she had acted wisely , with the exception of having left her mother as she did . " The case was again brought before Bir . Selfe on Blonday , in the shape of a letter

from the Rev . Bir . Blunt , a Protestant clergyman , whose name had more than once been mentioned in connection with the case . Mr . Blunt stated that he had known the mother for four years , and had every reason to think well of her character . He had seen the daughter once or twice at her own request , and considered her to be weak-minded and flighty , but at the same

time honest and truthful ; she told him that she had a terror of the Oratory fathers , but he did not think she had any intelligent appreciation of the difference between the two Churches . The Poor Law Board having ordered an examination into the case of Timothy Daly , who , ib will be remembered , was said to have been neglected in the infirmary ward of the Holborn Union , and to have suffered , if not died , from bed sores caused by the neglect , the inquiry was opened on

Saturday by Bir . Farnall , the Poor-law Commissioner . The witnesses examined were the surgeon who saw him before his admission to the union , the master of the house , the Roman Catholic priest who visited Daly , and a surgeon having no connection with the union , who visited the place and gave in a report of his inspection . So far the evidence of the witnesses does not much bear out the charges made against the authorities

of the union . The inquiry was resumed on Blonday . The nurse and the surgeon were examined at great length , and detailed the management of the hospital wards in the union . The Commissioner censured the practice of employing pauper nurses . The surgeon admitted that the record of his visits were made out not by himself , but by one of the school boys ; and as

he sometimes did not "initial" them for a month together , they were not always to be relied on as truthful records of his visits . He admitted that he was not aware of the existence of bed sores in Daly ' s case till some days after they had made their appearance . At the Central Criminal Court Blajor Lumley appeared to answer the charge of sending a challenge to fight a duel .

The defendant was bound over in £ 500 , in his own recognisances , and one surety of £ 250 ; to keep the peace for twelve months . > Edward Hammond , who pleaded guilty at the November sessions of unlawfully imprisoning his wife , and who had been out on bail , surrendered to receive judgment . He was sentenced to twelve months ' imprisonment , with hard labour .

Bir . Burroughs , the member of the Stock Exchange , ivhose attempt to escape with some Confederate bonds caused so much excitement on the Stock Exchange a few months ago , pleaded not guilty to the charge of obtaining the bonds by false pretences—that is , by giving cheques on banks ivhere he had " no effects . " But as it appeared that in some instances the bonds were given him before he made out the cheques , and almost all the witnesses stated that they would have trusted

him even though he had not given the cheques at the instant , the jury returned a verdict of '' Not Guilty . " The trial of Kohl for the murder of his countryman , Fuhrohp , in the North Woolwich Blarshes , commenced on Wednesday . The prisoner elected to be tried by a mixed jury . The facts of the case , as they were given at the time of the discovery of the

murder , were again fully gone into by the different witnesses , and among them was a brother of the deceased , who stated that he and his mother accompanied the deceased on board the steamer at Hamburgh , where he took his passage to England with the intention of proceeding to America . The trial proceeded as far as to the close of the caso for the prosecution , when an

adjournment took place to Thursday , when the prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to death . —At the Preston quarter sessions , John Newton , a bankrupt cotton manufacturer , was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for secretly removing from his mill—or , in strict legal phraseology , stealing—some property which had passed into the hands of his assignees . -At the

AVarwick quarter sessions , two brickmakers , named Stone and Gregory , were each sentenced to fourteen years' penal servitude for killing three and stabbing four horses , the property of Blessrs . Lewis , brick manufacturers , at Aston . It seems that Blessrs . Lewis had determined not to employ any men belonging to the trade union , and the destruction of the horses is supposed

to have been a brutal act of revenge . Henry Brown was executed at Kirkdale on Saturday for the murder of Thomas Bl'Carthy , at Liverpool . On Blonday night a Macclesfield silk weaver , named John Gill , shot a young woman , who seems to have rejected his addresses . The young woman lies in a dangerous state . Gill is in custody . -Last week , a Bath shoemaker and his wife , pressed by want , determined to leave the world together . They each swallowed a quantity laudanum ,

but the poison took effect only upon the woman . The husband , who was brought before the local magistrates on Blonday , is said to have been formerly confined in a lunatic asylum . Three out of the eight men buried alive in the colliery at AVigan last week , have been rescued . It seems that the blasting of the mine liad shaken the brickwork along the sides of the bottom ; aud as the loosened bricks appear to have been touched by the

cage in its descent , they fell in upon it , and killed five of the men who were descending . The three rescued men were in an exhausted state when tbey were brought to the surface . In August last a collision occurred on the Great Western Railway , at the Pontypool Road Junction , between an excursion train and a goods train . Several of the excursionists were

injured , and one of them , a Bir . Choate , of Worcester , died last week from the effects of the shock he received . The evidence at the inquest , ivhich was held on Friday week , went to show that the collision occurred through mismanagement of the signals , and the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against the signalman , Phillips . Accounts from Holyhead

announce that a small vessel was driven ashore upon the Great Burbo Bank during the heavy gale of Thursday week , aud that all on board perished . The gale was felt with great severity in the Irish Channel . An inquest was held on Wednesday on a woman named Doherty , jthe wife of the clown at an east-end theatre , who was poisoned by swallowing some chemical liquid

in mistake for medicine . The jury returned a verdict of accidental death , and censured the carelessness of her mother , with whom she lived , who kept such dangerous liquids in the house without any label of their poisonous nature . Mr . Tyrwhitt has decided the question brought beforo him by the managers of various theatres , whether the entertainment produced at the Royal Alhambra was not such an " entertainment of the stage " as made it an infraction of the law ivhen performed in an un-