Hull and Selby Railway, sold and disposed of by him,
or his order, and was bound to account for all profits
thereon. An account to be taken of such profits, the
defendant to be charged with interest at the rate of 5
per cent, from the time of sale of such shares, to be
allowed credit for the sums paid by him, with all just
allowances, the value of the shares, where it could not
be ascertained, to be taken at the average market price
at the time of the sale. There were various other
directions to carry out the decree. The defendant to
pay all costs of the suit up to the hearing—Decree was
pronounced accordingly.

Garotte Robberies have been renewed at Leeds. On
the 15th inst., two men, named Lockwood and Murphy,
the one a nut hawker, the other a hawker of oysters,
were charged at the Leeds Court-house with "garotting"
and robbing a person named Goodall, while on
his way home, a few nights before. Goodall had been
at the Horse and Jockey, public-house, Hunslet-lane,
where the prisoners went to hawk their wares. They
saw that he had money, and dogged his footsteps until
he arrived at a lonely place called Leatherley-lane,
where Murphy seized him by the throat from behind,
and while nearly strangled, Goodall saw Lockwood come
in front of him, and rifle his pockets of their contents,
amounting to some 15s. in silver. Both men were
subsequently captured by detective officers, and are
positively sworn to by the prosecutor. They are committed
for trial at York assizes. On the night of the 14th, a
pipemaker, named John Ogden, residing in Mabgate,
Leeds, was waylaid on his way home by four fellows
who had seen him in a house a short time previously
with cash in his possession. He was "garotted," but
after leaving the house he had taken the precaution to
conceal his money upon his person, so that his assailants
could not find it. Disappointed of their booty, the
fellows very savagely beat and otherwise illtreated their
victim. A young man named Frederick Pickard, a
mechanic, is in the hands of the police on this charge.

Application was made by the Queen's Advocate to
the Prerogative Court, on the 17th inst. for the delivery
out of the registry of the Will and Codicils of the late
Napoleon Bonaparte. He prayed that the documents
might be delivered to the Foreign Secretary, in order
that he might hand them to the French government,
upon a notarial copy being left in the registry. There
was an affidavit made by Lord John Russell, justifying
the application on the grounds of public policy. The
Judge, Sir John Dodson, decided upon complying with
the application, but not on the grounds alleged. He
could not decree the will and codicils to be delivered to
the French government; but he might order them to
be delivered out for the purpose of being sent to and
put into custody of the legal authorities in France, or to
be recorded in the proper place there. He could not
make the decree on grounds of public policy; but
Napoleon Bonaparte was a domiciled Frenchman at the time
of his death, and France seemed the proper place for his
will and codicils. He directed that they should be
delivered out to the Foreign Secretary, for the purpose
of being delivered by him to the legal authorities in
France. The Queen's Advocate would not undertake
to say that when the papers were in the hands of the
Secretary of State he would not do with them as he
might be advised.

An important Will Case, that of Kelly versus Thewles,
involving a property of more than £300,000 in the
funds, &c., and £3000 per annum from estates in land,
came to a final judgment in Dublin on the 19th instant,
in a commission of review. The will of the late
Edmond Kelly had been declared null by a Court of
Delegates, on the ground of undue influence exercised
over the testator by his wife, the present appellant, to
whom he was married in his old age, and whose
conduct in the early part of her life was the subject of the
severest strictures of the court in giving judgment on
that occasion. Mrs. Kelly appealed to the late Lord
Chancellor, by whose directions the present commission
of review was issued; and the unanimous judgment of
the court to-day was pronounced in favour of the
appellant, thus establishing the will, and reversing the
decision of the Court of Delegates. The case has, from
the commencement, excited much interest in Ireland.

At the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, on the
21st inst., John Williams, an American, was charged
with the Murder of Andrew Mather, toll-keeper, on the
4th or 5th of December last, on the turnpike-road
between Cleikumin Inn and Toll, parish of Lauder,
Berwickshire. The deceased not returning home on
the night of Saturday, the 4th of December, his daughters
went out in search of him, and found him lying on the
road-side, and the prisoner beside him. The clothes of
the deceased were all torn, and he was nearly naked
above the breast. There was a great deal of blood
on his head and neck which were disfigured with wounds.
When they went to seek for assistance, the accused ran
away. He was apprehended two days after; and, on
being questioned, he said he had killed the man, and
that the devil had tempted him. He said he did not
think they would hang him; but, if they transported
him, it was just what he wanted, as he could not get
back to his own country any other way. The jury
found the prisoner guilty, and the court expressed
concurrence in the verdict. He was sentenced to be
executed at Greenlaw, the county town of Berwickshire,
on Monday, the 14th of March.

At the Marylebone Police-court, on the 22nd inst.,
Isaac Hunt was charged, at the instance of Mr. Thomas,
Secretary to the Royal Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, with Torturing a Horse by
wrenching off part of its tongue. Ezekiel Elliott, an
officer in the employ of the Society, deposed that on
the 5th inst. he saw defendant with a horse and cart in
Kentish-town. The horse was evidently in a state of
starvation, and scarcely able to stand, and after
defendant had made an endeavour to get it along, but
without success, he thrust his hand into the mouth of
the poor animal and wrenched off at least five inches
of its tongue. The portion of the tongue thus brutally
torn away fell upon the ground, and defendant picked
it up and put it into his pocket. Another witness
corroborated this evidence in all the material particulars.
Defendant's answer to the charge was that the horse
would not go along, and that he laid hold of the mouth
to touch the bit; he also laid hold of the tongue, and
a part thereof dropped off—it was diseased before; and
when part of the tongue fell into his (defendant's) hand
he did not, as alleged, put it into his pocket; he had
not exercised any cruelty whatever. The defendant was
fined £3 and costs, or six months imprisonment.

A fearful Murder has been committed at Wakefield.
The victim is a girl named Catherine Sheardon, a
prostitute, living in the house of Ann Clough; and the
person who committed the horrid crime is a man named
Henry Dobson, a cabinet-maker, about twenty-four
years of age. The murdered girl was found in a room
by the woman of the house, lying across the room, on
her side; a wound, two or three inches deep, had been
inflicted on the left side of the neck, severing the jugular
vein entirely, and giving evidence that death had been
instantaneous. A razor, covered with blood, was found
on the floor; and in one of her hands was found the
street-door key. It is supposed that Dobson, having
entered the house, had caught the girl in his arms, and
using, perhaps, some expressions of endearment towards
her, for she appears to have made no struggle, had
suddenly cut her throat. He at once made his escape from
the house, and on the entry of Clough she found
deceased on the floor, quite dead, no one else being in the
house at the time. The tragedy must have taken place
within a very short time, as Clough asserts she was not
absent from her house more than twenty minutes in all.
Information of the affair was at once given to the police,
and within an hour Dobson was apprehended. While
on the way to the station-house, he asked repeatedly if
the girl was dead, and on being told she was, he replied,
"And I have done it—what more do you want?" He
added, "You are a pretty set of devils, you police; I
have been within twenty yards of the place all the
time." He was much excited, and appeared to have
been drinking; he was not, however, at all drunk. An
inquest has been held on the body, and a verdict of
"Wilful Murder" having been returned, Dobson has
been committed to York Castle for trial.

At the Middlesex Sessions, on the 27th inst., George
Hardcastle, a respectable looking youth, was indicted