The Week.

deemed his position in A 3 ia , but requires well-trained officers . The Atnencans in British Columbia are annoyed at a continued exaction of the Hudson's Bay Company . There is excitement in Hovannah concerning the President ' s message . General Harney is engaged successfully in suppressing Indian depredations . Two shocking railroad catastrophes are reported in America , at which between twenty and thirty lives were sacrificed . The schooner Susan , which surreptitiously sailed from Mobile several weeks ago with a party of filibusters on

board , has been wrecked on a coral reef sixty mile 3 from Belize . They were kindly treated by the captain of the British war steamer JBcmusfr , "who conveyed them back to Mobile , and thereby earned , it is stated , the gratitude of the American government . This stroke of inhumanity ; -o " n the part of the winds ancl the waves will prove a heavy blow to AValker . Advices from Mexico still continued very discouraging . The news , in anticipation of the next overland mail , has the Bombay date of the 24 th December , nearly up to the time when the amnesty would expire . In Oudethe force under Brigadier Troup had fought

, a battle with Ishmail Khan , the issue of which appears to have been very Bhort . Afterwards Ishmail Khan gave himself up under the Queen ' s proclamation , and others have since followed his example . It seems , however , that in the same locality , a body of our men under Mr . Hume had to retire , no doubt owing to the smallness of its number , before a rebel fores which appears to be tnakiuj * its way to Central India to join Tantia Topee . This was on the 5 th December , but on the 17 th the force of Sir R . Napier was in full pursuit of the rebel ? .

, slaughtering many of them along their route , and capturing some of their elephants . Tantia Topee is still at large . When last heard of lie was supposed to be making for OodejpoTe , iuRajpootana . The old king of Delhi , it is stated , is on his way to the Cape of Good Hope , there to end his days in exile . Some improvements were being made at the shop of a draper in Liverpool , when the party wall gave way and caused a portion of the premises to fall in . Fifteen assistants and several customers were in the shop at the time of tbe

accident . A number of persons are injured , aud two of the customers ( females ) were killed on the spot . Three of the workmen were likewise severely injured , aud have since died ; six other persons were severely hurt . The number of persons now known to have been poisoned by eating the lozenges with which arsenic was mixed , at Bradford , is 225 , of whom eighteen have died . Five or six others are still suffering from the effects of the poison , and the recovery of two of them is doubtful . 1 . 30 of the persons poisoned were adults . The adjourned inquiry into the causes of the accident at the Polytechnic Institution

took place on Thursday . The evidence went to show that the accident was . occasioned by a defective slab of stone on the top of the staircase , and also by a defect in what is known as a "joggle , " which is a species of dovetailing in iron . The inquiry was again adjourned , the architects appointed by the coroner and jury not being prepared with their reports . A charge of perjury has been brought"by Mr . Isaac Barratt , furniture dealer , at Woolwich , against Mr . Murrell , of AValbrook , auctioneer , and Captain Thomas Nutting , of Peckham-rye . The

charge arises out of au sctlon for assault tried iu the Court of Queeri ' s Bench last month . There being many witnesses to examine , an adjournment was ordered . Ann Collyer , who has undergone several examinations on the . charge of setting fire to her master ' s house a fortnight ago , when it was burned to the ground , has been committed lor trial . A young girl , under sixteen years of age , named Emma Coppins , was barbarously murdered in the street at Queensborough , on Tuesday night . The assassin is Frederick Prentis , a bricklayer ' s

labourer , whose addresses the girl had refused ; and iu consequence he seems to have waylaid her , and cut her throat with a razor . The murderer has been apprehended . The Newcastle sessions terminated last week , the number of prisoners having been moire than usually large . " AVith regard to the Recorder , " says the local Chronicle , " the difference in his court appears to have terminated . The members ol the bar attended as usual , and the ordinary harmony and good feeliDg appeared to prevail . " - The Master of the Rolls on AVednesday gave judgment on an application for a new trial in the suit- "Sivinfen v . Swinfen . ' The whole case turned upon the question whether , at the time he made the will ,