The Week.

death . The officers of the fleet had been entertained by the Mayor of Belfast at a dejeuner , and they were returning by railway to Carrickfergus , when Lieutenant Gardiner , in spite of the remonstrances of his companions , got upon the top of the ¦ carriage to smoke . This dangerous freak cost him his life . He fell upon the line , and his head was crushed into " a shapeless

mass . " The Atlantic Telegraph Company have got the whole of their capital subscribed , and the tender for the construction of the cable is accepted . This tender is made by Messrs . Glass , Elliot , and Co ., who undertake to lay the cable across the Atlantic in 1864 . The manufacture of the cable has already commenced . A balloon accident has happened at Halifax , which ,

although it brought no harm to the aeronaut , was the cause of the death of another man . ' The balloon ascended from the Piece Hall , and had scarcely got clear of the building when it fouled the chimney of a mill , and was there held . The balloon collapsed , but the aeronaut succeeded iu getting to the ground "by means of a rope . The next morning a man named

Rawson was ascending for the purpose of clearing the balloon , -when the rope broke . He fell to the ground and was killed . George Turner , a man with many aristocratic names , who was charged a week ago with obtaining £ 300 by professing to sell an advowson which did not belong to him , has been again brought up at AVestmhister Police-court . The Rev . Mr . Cox ,

¦ who had sought to buy the advowson , and who had paid the . -6300 , was examined , and showed how ingeniously the prisoner had imposed upon him . The case ended in the magistrate announcing that he should commit Turner for trial . He was , however , remanded till next week , when other charges are to be preferred against him . ' A labourer passing along the Hyde Park-road saw a bundle lying within the rails under the trees . On taking up the bundle he found it to contain a child still

alive , but dying from strangulation . The child was taken to St . George's Hospital , and died soon afterwards . An inquest was held on the body , and a verdict of wilful murder against some person unknown was returned . Mr . Humphreys has opened an inquest on the body of an unfortunate young man , ¦ clerk in the City Bank , who , it is believed , has been murdered .

Nothing was elicited of any value , and at present the mystery -of the death is denser than ever . The inquiry into the extraordinary disposal of bodies in the structure of AVhitechapel Church has been concluded , resulting in a special verdict , blaming the manner in which so called " still-boras " are disposed of . A body has been found under somewhat similar

circumstances in St . George's Church , Southwark . The suspicious disposal of bodies of children also naturall y formed a topic of conversation at an inquest held at Camberwell on the body of an infant whose death occurred under suspicious circumstances . A policeman named Charles , who is charged with the wilful murder of his wife , has been remanded at Bury , Lancashire .

On the llth of February last , the body of a woman was found in the canal at Pendlebury . It was not identified at the time ; but a sister of Mrs . Charles , on being recently shown some -clothes taken from the body , at once declared them to have belonged to the prisoner's wife , who has been missing since the 13 th of February . An order for the exhumation of the bod y

found at Pendlebury has been issued by Sir George Grey . An Essex contemporary publishes a deplorable story . At Sible Hedingliam , in that county , lived an old Frenchman , who was reported to be a wizard , ancl it seems that some of the people of the village imagined that he had " bewitched" them . One of his fancied victims , a woman , named Smith , was anxious to

bave the " spell" removed , and promised him £ 3 if ho would go with her to her house and free her from the influence of the powers of darkness . The old nnu refused to go with her ,

whereupon he was seized by the woman and two men , and plunged twice into a brook and otherwise maltreated . The wretched " wizard" died a few days ago , it is alleged , from the effects of the immersion . — —A robbery of a remarkable character has been committed at Bradford . On Friday night , the llth inst ., the counting-house of Mr . AV . D . Fox , a

manufacturer , was entered , and an iron safe weighing 8 cwt . was carried off . The robbers appear to have gone about their work with the greatest care and deliberation , and without attracting the attention of a watchman who guarded the premises . The mill is ^ only a short distance from the Bowling Ironworks , and it is suggested that the din of the forge hammers might have

drowned any noise caused by the thieves' operations . However this may have been , the safe was removed into a field near the mill , where , as is clear from distinct traces of wheels , a cart was in readiness to receive the plunder . The safe contained the whole of Mr . Fox ' s books , and money , cheques , and bankers ' drafts of the value of £ 1 , 800 . The police have been so far

baffled in their efforts to discover the thieves , or to ascertain what has become of the stolen property . A notorious thief has been committed from the AVestminster Police-court on two charges of garotting . Now that the winter evenings are close at hand we may expect to hear of several cases of this sort ; but it is to be hoped that we shall this winter be spared the

panic which afflicted London in the closing months of last year . Four murderers were executed at Kirkdale , on Saturday , and upwards of 100 , 000 persons witnessed the sickening spectacle . AVe regret to have to add that a platelayer , employed on the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway , was knocked down by an engine and killed while endeavouring to keep people off the line at a point from which a view of the scaffold could be obtained . Sir Bernard Burke has written on " The

Vicissitudes of Families , " and everybody talks of the mutability of human affairs ; but justice has yet to be done , by a skilled pen , to the glorious uncertainty of horse-racing . Here is the St . Leger run , the race most uncertain among races , and the result is remarkable . " Lord Clifden " who was before " The Ranger ' in the Derby , and was behind "The Ranger" for the Grand

Prize of Paris , has now fairly beaten "The Ranger" again . AVho after this shall say that either horses or prophets are to be depended upon . ' On AA ' ednesday there was launched for the Peninsular and Oriental Company-the fourth vessel which they have within a few weeks received froiiixthe hands of builders on the Thames . This launch is especially notable as being that of

an iion ship from works where hitherto only wooden vessels have been built . Another iron ship was launched from Deptford-green Dockyard shortly afterwards . Still another death from crinoline will , we fear , take place ; a young woman , a servant at Cambenvell , having been most seriously burnt while engaged in her ordinary duties , dressed in the fashion which now prevails even

in the kitchen . FOREIGN - INTELLIGENCE . —It has been stated in the Moniteur that the new Kingof the Greeks was to have embarked on the 17 th inst . for St . Petersburg . The young Sovereign is about to pay a round of visits to European Courts before setting out for his new dominions . He is expected in Paris about the middle of

October , and will also visit London . The Furope of Frankfort denies that the projected offensive and defensive alliance between Denmark and Sweden has been actually concluded , but states that the two Scandinavian Powers have come to an arrangement with a view to certain eventualities . A Swedish corps d ' armee , 30 , 000 strong , will be assembled in the south of

Sweden , and if Holstein be occupied it will cross the strait The same journal states that the Federal execution has been i officially decided on , and will take' place immediately . AA e