The Week.

suitable measure passed . The Eev . E . H . Craufurd , th Eector of Oldswinford , has , according to the local reports , delivered an extraordinary sermon declining to observe the Day of Humiliation appointed by the Bishop of Worcester in his diocese . The rev . gentleman bases his refusal on two groundsfirst , that the Queen is tho head of the Church , and a clay of humiliation should have been appointed by her Majesty and

not by the Archbishop of Canterbury ; secondly , that it ought not to have been appointed iu Lent , which is or should be the season of fasting . He protested against a " number of ruiiicund and well-fed Christians" meeting together to pray , not that the Sufferings of the poor beasts might be relieved , " but that God would be pleased to spare their lives , that man's carnivorous

appetite might be more fully gorged ; that lie would condescend more abundantly to supply the shambles , and suffer not the victims of the pole-axe to decrease I" Tho reverend gentleman said a good deal more to the same effect . A good deal of discontent is expressed at the manner iu which the Industrial Exhibition at the Guildhall has been got together . It is insisted

that the exhibition is merely one of the wares made and sold hy large tradesmen , and that it contains very few of the productions of working men who are themselves exhibitors . Mr . Webber gave utterance to these complaints yesterday at the Court of Common Council , and there was a not uninteresting discussion on the subject . ——At the Guildhall Police-court , an

application was made to the presiding magistrate to suppress the meeting of betting men who were frequently to be found congregated at the corner of Fleet-street and Farringdon-street . MY . Alderman Hale said he would exercise all his' powers as a magistrate to remove the nuisance ; and thereafter , this not being a criminal case , claimed tho pair of white gloves , ivhich are the usual token of a " maiden assize . "

of Trinity College , Cambridge , was buried on Saturday , the 10 th inst . There was a large attendance at his funeral , all the heads of the University being present . In the town every mark of respect was paid to the memory of the deceased . A singular case of disputed property came before the Thames Police-court on the 10 th inst . Tiiree persons of the name of Holmes were charged with wilfully damaging a house on

Bow Common . It appeared that no fewer than seventeen persons were assisting the Holmeses in tearing the lead off the roof , and otherwise destroying the house . The counsel for the defendants set up a title to the property on the part of Henry Frederick Holmes , their relative , and finally Samuel and Henry Holmes were committed for trial . ——

The agricultural labourers of Kent have begun to agitate for an increase of wages . A meeting of their number has been held at Maidstone , at ivhich resolutions were passed declaring the present rate of pay to be insufficient . A memorial to the farmers of the district asking for more wages was agreed upon . A coroner ' s inquiry has been htld touching the death of an omnibus-di ; iver named Loveman , who , it was alleged , was killed

by a person called Brown , while the latter , who was drunk , was endeavouring to get on the 'bus . The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Brown , who had previously described himself as " the fighting man of Camden-town . " On Tuesday , the 13 th inst , her Majesty the Queen , accompanied by the Princess Helena and the Princess Hohenlohe , visited the camp

at Aldershot . The various troops were inspected , and a review took place , the weather being dry , but cold . This is the first visit her Majesty has paid to the Aldershot encampment . ——At the Southwark Police Court a young man named Barker was charged with being an accomplice in a robbery . According to the statement of the prosecutor , Barker had come up to him

while he was in pursuit of a woman who had just robbed him of a watch , representing that he ( Barker ) was a detective officer . The thieves were thus allowed to escape , while Barker invited the prosecutor to go into a public house with him . The prisoner was committed for trial . At the Clerkenwell Police Court , on the 14 th inst ., a' person" named M'Guire , who is described as an independent gentleman and a doctor of medicine , was

brought up charged with having given to a girl named Eve some medicine which was intended to procure abortion . Eve stated that she had been seduced by the defendant , and that on her telling him that she was in the family way he had given her pills and a bottle of medicine , ' which she did not take . The defendant ' s solicitor said nothing in refutation of the

charge , but simply asked the magistrate to discharge his client , who , he added , was a gentleman of education and a man of independent means . The magistrate , however , decided upon remanding the defendant . The arrests of the Fenians in the provinces have become less frequent . Those last reported are of a medical student at Charleville , county Cork , a farmer in

the King ' s County , and another farmer , together with his two sons , in the county of Limerick . In the Limerick docks there has been a case of rifles and revolvers and a number of bulletmoulds seized on the assumption that they are a Fenian import . A fresh Fenian proclamation has been posted at Swords , in the county of Dublin . It is in the usual style , and winds up with

the customary " God save the Queen . " The statement has gained general credence that . Tamos Stephens has escaped from Dalkey , a small fishing station in the bay of Dublin , on the 4 th inst ., in a hooker . One reason assigned for believing it is the confident declaration of his relatives since then that he is safe safe now . It should be added that some attribute the origin of the report to the police , who , despairing at last

One of the cases with which Mr . Commissioner Winslow dealt on the Oth inst . in the Court of Bankruptcy was that of George Nicholas Sanders . This is the notorious Confederate agent , who came to this country to fit out a fleet of Confederate war ships , and has succeeded in getting pretty deeply into debt . Altogether he owes £ 10 , 323 , W . S . Lindsay and Co ., figuring in the list of creditors for £ 2 , 302 . It will be remembered that the officers

of the Bermondsey vestry recently seized , on the premises of a ketchup manufacturer , several putrid livers , which were considered unfit for human food . It being shown that the Act of Parliament did not apply to the case , a verdict was given for the defendant ; but at the Southwark Police Court , when the case again came up , the counsel for the prosecution said he was

instructed to ask for a case for the decision of the Court of Queen's Bench , which was granted . The mystery surrounding the recent extensive forgeries of Russian bank notes is likely to be dispelled . At the Lambeth Police Court it was shown that one of the prisoners had confessed his guilt in the matter ¦ without the usual caution having been given to him . The

charge against him was therefore withdrawn , whereupon he entered the witness box on the Oth inst . ancl gave evidence against his accomplice . The remaining prisoner was again remanded . The electoral returns which have been the subject of so much speculation were published on the 10 th inst . They are exceedingly voluminous , but no public document of the kind

ever possessed a higher interest or more amply repaid perusal . The returns are of the most exhaustive character , and furnish all the materials for ascertaining the exact composition of the electoral body in every borough and county in England and especially of judging of the changes which an extension of the franchise would effect in the constituencies , whether considered in the aggregate or in detail , ——The late Master