The Week.

ceedings were commenced for the recovery of the full amount . It was subsequently admitted by the plaintiffs that the Gd . was rightly deducted , but the singular plea was put in that a postoffice order was not a legal tender . The defendant ' s counsel , however , pointed out that when the order was returned the objection was not as to the legality of the tender , but as to the amount represented by the order , and , that being the case , he

submitted that the plea could not be sustained . Tho Under Sheriff took the same view , and a verdict iv . is entered for the defendant . The solicitor for tho plaintiffs announced his intention of carrying the case before a superior Court . A man named Reilly , was apprehended on Monday , for threatening Mr . Baron Martin , who had tried a case which went against

the prisoner . Reilly , it seems , has frequently followed and annoyed his lordship , whom he lias accused of having acted unjustly towards him . The man was brought before the Bowstreet Magistrate , and was ordered to bo bound over to keep the peace . About a month ago a banker ' s cleric lost a case from his person containing about £ 8 , 000 in bills and cheques ,

together with some bank notes . No trace was had of them till the other day , when one of the bills was presented at the London and Westminster Bank , where it was identified as one of the missing documents . It was traced to a tailor in the City , on ivhose premises the rest of the missing notes were found . The tailor is in custody . The charge of robbing

Messrs . Prescott's bank by one of the porters employed there , while a man named Carman was charged with receiving the stolen property , has been further investigated before the Lord Mayor . From the evidence then adduced it appeared that a portion of the booty , about i 860 , contained iu a black bag , had been taken to the house of the prisoner ' s father , and by him entrusted to a public-house keeper , named Michie , who hid it ,

but afterwards gave about £ 50 of the money up to the police . Both these persons were examined before the Lord Mayor , and while they both admitted they knew the money was stolen they seemed to throw upon each other the blame of having appropriated the missing £ 10 . The prisoners were remanded , the Lord Mayor intimating his opinion that more persons than the prisoners ought to be in the dock . The two accidents on the

Great Western Railway have been quickly followed by a deplorable disaster on the South Eastern line . The tidal train which left Folkestone at half-past two o'clock on Friday week , on the arrival of passengers from Boulogne , had proceeded as far as Staplehurst , when , in crossing a bridge , the engine left the rails . Tho train broke into two parts , and several of the

carriages plunged into the stream below , an d were shattered into fragments . Ten of the unfortunate passengers were killed , while a large number of others were more or loss seriously injured . Mr . Charles Dickens was in the train , and had a verynarrow escape . There would seem to be little doubt as to the cause of this calamity . As at Rednal , . platelayers had

been at work on tho bridge , and it is affirmed that the engine was thrown off its course by a loose plate . The inquest has been opened , but stands adjourned for evidence . The terrible nature of the accident was alluded to at an adjourned meeting of the company held ou Monday for another purpose , by the chairman , the Hon . Jlr . Byng , in feeling terms ,

and all present appeared to share with the chairman iu poignant regret for the accident and the misery it had spread through so many families . The Rednal inquest was brought to a close on Saturday , the jury returning a verdict of " Accidental death , " but at the same time strongly censuring the officials of the Great Western Railway Company . Anderton , tho driver , of one of the engines , is dead . This increases the number of deaths to twelve . The Rev . E . S . Abbott , a beneficed clergy .

man , in Dublin , shot himself on Monday . The rev . gentleman officiated on the previous day in his usual health , but he returned from the Bank of Ireland next morning in a state of great depression , though he assigned no reason for it , and soon after committed the rash act . There was an inquest on the body of a man named Newton , who poisoned himself iu Finsbury ou

Monday . It appeared that he some time ago had his fingers taken off in the course of his trade , for which he received a sum of money by way of compensation , but fancying he could obtain no other employment ho resolved to live upon the money as long as it would last , and then to destroy himself . This purpose he carried out with great deliberation . The jury , however ,

returned a verdict of " Insanity . " An inquest has been held on the body of a man who was killed by the falling of tho lift at the Grosvenor Hotel , on Tuesday evening . Several witnesses described the ivorking of the machinery , but no one professed to be able to explain the cause of the accident . The inquest was adjourned . On Monday afternoon a shocking suicide took

place iu a first-class carriage of a train proceeding from Victoria Station to the Crystal Palace . As the train was passing through the tunnel close to the station a lady and gentleman , seated in a first-class carriage , were startled by hearing a report , as of a fog-signal , and on the train emerging to the light they discovered that a respectably-dressed young man , who happened to be

in the same compartment with them , had shot himself , and was quite dead . He appeared to be a foreigner . A man named Kelly murdered his wife at a small village in the neighbourhood of Rochdale , on Sunday morning . It seems the man had been for sometime a teetotaller ; but within the last few days he relapsed into his old habits of drunkenness . So far did this go that delirium tremens set in , and the wretched man in his frenzy appears to have attacked his wife , and after a

violent struggle , to have murdered her by cutting her throat . He was taken into custody the same day , when he was still under the influence of delirium . A costermonger named Bowyer is in custody on a charge of attempting to murder . The circumstances under which the crime was committed show a singular state of society . The prisoner , though only eighteen ,

is a married man , and he went about in his neighbourhood bragging that his wife ivould fight any woman there . Mrs . Masters came before the magistrate , and said she offered to fight the wife ; but iu tho meantime the prisoner attacked the the landlord of the house where he was lodging , and finding he was getting the worst of it , took the knife and stabbed him

in nine different places . The man . is still in danger , and his assailant is in custody . An inquest was concluded ou Monday on the body- of a man named Webb , who met his death in a fight with another man named M'Coy . It appeared that the two men were walking together , when they met au old man , whom the deceased began to insult , while M'Coy interfered for

the old man's protection . This led to a fight , when M'Coy knocked Webb down , and he broke his neck in the fall . The coroner , in summing up , said M'Coy ' s kindness of intention would not save him from the charge of manslaughter , and the jury returned a verdict accoidingly . Mr . Baron Martin was engaged at the Central Criminal Court during the whole of

Wednesday and Thursday , trying the brothers Barry , and three of their servants , on the charge of having attempted to defraud the insurance-offices , by representing that a quantity of goods stored in their warehouses at their wharf in Rotlierbithe had been destroyed by a fire which took place there , when in point of fact a large portion of that property was preserved . Several

witnesses were examined , whose evidence did not materially differ from that given at the preliminary examination at the Mansion House . A verdict of not guilty was returned , upon