... AN IBISH WILL CASE. A will case of an important nature, affecting the valility of a large number of legacies to Roman catholic ecclesiastical dignitaries and institutions, was biought to a conclusion in the Dublin Court of Probate on Wednesdlay. Mr. William Murphy disputed the will of his aunt, as made under undue influence, and when the testatrix was of un- sound mind. It was alleged that ...

... THE CLERICO-POLCE TAX. | . ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ -- - ;. 'I COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY GRANTED. IT is with much pleasure we, announce, on ?? authority of a special telegram, that Sir G'orge Grey has, on behalf of the Government, consented; to the appointment of a Committeeof Inquiry into the character 'and working of the; Caord Advocate's obnoxious Clerico'-Police Act. Last week Mr J. D. Wormald, ?? Mr . ...

... Jtilt TRIALS-FIRST DIV18ION. (Before'Lord Ormidale.) NBSHlOP V. RUSSEL AND OTHERS, AND R=SeELL IND I ' i ''OTaHSn V, rnSHOP. These conjoined actions -werel decided :yester. 4ayi. Mondayiand, Tuesday were occupied by the hearing of the evidence -and the , speeches of the defenderis Idt ursuers.' .e y the, presiding..udge chiarged the, jary, .who retired between' tweive and, one'c ock. ...

... ig af MONDAY.-Before Captain McCoy and 1P. White, Esq, tsa 1EGGING. George Kingsgland was charged with begging in Daniel. n street, on Saturday night. Defeidant-If you'll forgive me I'll go out of the town. On this promise he was discharged. a WILtFUL DASSAGE. t SamnveZ Matthews was charged with wilfully breaking h seven panes of glass, the property of Charles Moore. Df The complainant is a ...

... THE DiNHAM MURDER. EXECUTION OF GRIFFITHS AT CHESTER. oil Mon(lay morning, Samuel Griffiths expiated the crime of murder in front of the City Gaol, Chester. The murder was one of great atrocity, the victim being an old man verging on the allotted span of human life, and its object being the most wicked and paltry, viz., the victim's little money. The name of the murdered m.an was Isaac Newport ...

... - HORRIBLE lEATH FROM4 TE BITE OF A DOG. An inquest was held on Tuesdlay, at Middleton. one-Row, near Darlington, by Mr Settle, coroner, on the body of Humphrey Lee, 39 years of age, who died on Sunday evening, from the bite of a dog, which developed hydrophobia.' About six weeks ago the deceased was bitten by a dog, when engaged in loosing him from a rabbit trap in which be had been e caught. ...

... THE BRIMGE OF EARN MURDEL (From the Pierthsr AdvertUS) On Tuesday evening, Mms. Basy was brought to see Henderson, the man apprehended in Aberdeen, and, in the gas-light, slad she thought he WmS like the man The two were agin confronted on Wed. nesday afternoon, when the woman again said she thought he was like the man. The man himself, on his examination, denied having been at Mount Stew. art ...

... THE SERIOUS NUISANCE IN GREAT C CHAES STREET. ?? J- l L Yesterday, at the PIolioe (Court, before Messrs. C. Sturge, E. Gwyther, and C. Goodrick, MIr. George bowler, vesta manufacturer, Great Charles Street, was summoned, under the 27th section of the Nuisances Remeoval Act, for carry- ing on a dangerous and offensivo trade, which was a nuisance, and ?? to thi health of the inhabitants of tbe ...

... TUESSDAY, APRIL 17. BEFORE MR. S. LEIWARD. A HAWKER OF SOAp. -A man named George M'Donald was charged with having assaulted Molso- officer 06, on the previous afternoon. The attention of the officer was drawn to the prisoner, who carried a basket, and was going from house to house in Extnmalhi- street. The officer went to see what was in the basket, vhen the prisoner struck him two or three ...

... LIVERPOOL POLIOE COURT. t W21)NESD&Y, APRIL 1I. DSSV0O15 MR815158. LAXPORLT AND) 0OoRALLY. t ILLIIGAL POBSISIaON 01 A WATOIT.-TVWO youths, named 11 Thococas Gibliosi, who lived in Bienheim-litreet, end James .M'C1iitoek, whose friends reside in Ford-aircet, Waor, brought up on the Charge of being fin posession of a gold watch, for which they could not sat efactoril acuount. On 1Friday evening ...

... I:E}OlIE 14Pt, PE-LI, DEPUTTtrXOODIR.a aged :37, wvas indicted for hlas-mig, o,,n -th th-;r35 K'i1r Unlawfully and rnalieiorrtly Wkunde A.th necl g tr. 3AIilaafie applcaked tor thec ndesac mso t0 e ' removd nnu ele for tile Prnlsnrert-t w' aie,-ea by Connolly, Who nleso in PJ ?? ?? preo by th not prcert on he mornnrtn previous~ ;on ?? tile 4th Decemlber thile tpris0nr had ned oMfen.iB e * l ? ...

... leli ~d In the crown court, the first case excited a degree Iva! s, of interest in Chester from the prisoner being well- fluc :r. known in the city'as a highly respectable man in oil or his business of an accountant and agent to various p0% Is. commercial interests previous to the crime with El R, be which he stood charged. dIoN Ai Alexander Archibald Sharp was charged with gre y, committing ...