The Week.

drove home . The Queen , Prince and Princess Christian , and Princess Louise , accompanied by the Duchess of Roxburghe and Colonel Ponsonby , attended Divine service in the parish church at Craithe , on the 2 Sth ult . The Queen , accompanied by Princess Louise , and attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe , drove to tbe Lynn of Muicb , on the 30 th ult .

GENERAL HOME NEWS . —The Registrar General's weekly return shows 1 , 394 deaths in London during last week , being 123 over the average . The excess is set down partly to the account of bronchitis . During the week there were 112 deaths from cholera and 32 from diarrhoea , the two together bemg ^ 55 lower than during last week , which was just 55 below the week

before . The decrease , which is very satisfactory , would have been even greater but for tiie 30 deaths from malignant cholera at AYoolwich and Plumstead . But the metropolis was the fourth among the ten great towns of the kingdom in point of health , Bristol being best , and Dublin and Newcastle worst . On Monday there was no death registered from cholera in the west

only one in the north , properly belonging to the centre , which had also one , one in the east , and twelve in the south , the whole of these being in Greenwich , AYoolwich , Charlton , and Plumstead . Father Ignatius—he used to be Brother Ignatius until lately—0 . S . B ., has made his appearance in London , and has undertaken to form a monastic establishment . On the

25 th nit ., at the Music Hall , Store-street , there was a gathering of clergymen and others supposed to be favourable to the movement . The Rev . Mr . Nihill , recently licensed curate of the Church of St . Michael and All Angels , Shoreditch , went through a religious service , in which there were vestments , ineense , and much chanting . Then ho addressed the meeting ' and announced that he had been appointed-by "Father" Ignatius to be Prior of the order of St . Benedict in

London" Father" Ignatius himself subsequently spoke , and called upon those present to enrol themselves in the order . Two trials of considerable public interest also took place at the Central Criminal Court . The first was the case of Mr . Greenland , the late manager of the Leeds Bank , which had been deferred for several months . He was charged with perjury in swearing to

the truth of certain returns as to the circulation of notes by the book , which were incorrect . After a prolonged hearing the jury found a verdict of guilty , hut recommended the prisoner to mercy on the ground that the affairs of the bank were iu great confusion , owing to the directors having thrown all the work on to the prisoner . Mr . Baron Pigott , who tried the case ,

released Mr . Greenland on sureties being entered into that he should come up for judgment when called upon . The second case was that of the policemen Barry and Hayes , who are accused of perjury in having sworn that they atrested two lads , named Dye and Pearce , while attempting to commit a burglary . Both prisoners were called upon to plead , but only one was

tried , so that he had the advantage of the other prisoner's testimony for his defence . It will be remembered that Dye and Pearse denied that they were arrested while attempting to commit burglary ; but that , on the contrary , they were taken into custody at a spot nearlyamile away from where the policemen swore they took them . The statements of Dye and Pearee were

corroborated by several witnesses . For the defence witnesses were called , some of whom swore to having met the constables with two persons in custody coming from the direction of where the alleged attempt at burglary had been made . The ease had not concluded when the court rose . On the 24 th ult . an inquest was held at Brighton on the body of Mr . George Hobday , a tradesman of Giacechurch-street , who committed suicide by throwing himself off the AA est Pier at

that watering-place . The evidence was of a most distressing character , and conclusive as to the mind of the deceased having been wholly unhinged . The jury returned a verdict to that effect . A suicide has taken place at AA'hitbread ' s brewery under circumstances of a far more remarkable character . A labourer , named AVard , who was employed in that great establishment , being tired of life , jumped into a huge

vat filled with carbonic acid gas . Some trouble was experienced in getting tho body out . He too , was pronounced to be of unsound mind . An assault of robbery of a very daring character was perpetrated on the same day in one of the most frequented of the thoroughfares of the metropolis . The € fcene of tho outrage was in front of the King ' s Cross

Station of the Great Northern Railway . It appears that a person named Swallow , an auctioneer and toy and fancy dealer of Peterborough , who had been in London some days on business , went to the King ' s Cross Station last AA ednesday evening for the purpose of returning home by rail . Finding that he had half-an-hour to spare he placed his bag and overcoat in a

carriage , and went out of the station for the purpose of smoking a pipe . At the cab entrance to the station he was accosted by a woman , but took little notice of her . Shortly afterwards he was about crossing the road , when " two men assaulted him , and quickly he was rendered insensible by the blows of the two men and the woman who in the first instance had spoken to him .

His three assailants after stealing from him a purse containing £ 28 10 s ., decamped as quickly as possible , but they fortunatel y were not sufficiently alert to escape the attention of the police ] AVithin a few minutes after the assault the two men were arrested , and were brought before the presiding magistrate at the Clerkenwell police-court , and committed for trial . The woman seems to have got off . Henry Buckle , the draper and

outfitter , of Stratford New Town , charged with having in his possession a quantity of goods stolen from the Great Eastern Railway , has been committed on two charges to take his trial . The trial of the policeman charged with perjury came to a close at the Central Criminal Court on the 26 th ult ., with a verdict of not guilty . Mr . Sleigh , who appeared for the prosecution ! applied that the trial of the other charges arising out of the

same affair should be deferred until Monday . In the mean time , he said , certain inquiries would be made . If they elicited the response which he was informed they would , he should go on with the other charges . If they did not , he should withdraw from the prosecution . The application was opposed , but the Recorder made the desired order . Mr . Bright arrived in

Dublin on the 27 th ult . He was met at Kingstown by the banquet committee , and travelled by train to the Westlandrow station , where a carriage awaited him . In this he went to the house of Mr . James Haughton , whose guest he is to he during his stay in Dublin . Mr . AY . D . Bromley , one of the Conservative members for Staffordshire , has been expressing

some rather novel opinions in respect to original sin . According to him not only is there the original stain , but "boys are naturally much more wicked and prone to crime than grown men . The audience which he favoured with these views laughed at him consumedly . There was a dense fog in London on the 27 th ult ., during which several accidents occurred .

Perhaps the most serious of these were two collisions which took place on the North London Railway , and on the London , Brighton , and South Coast Railway . The collision on the North London Railway took place between a passenger train and a goods train . The passenger train , it seems , was allowed to start from the Bow station before the goods train had got clear of the next station . Several of the passengers