The Week.

Mr . Sickles for killing Philip Barton Key , terminated at Washington on the 26 th ult . After about an hour spent in deliberation the jury returned a verdict of " not guilty . ' ' ¦ ' The burst of feeling that ensued , " says the New Yorh Herald , ' ' beggars all description ,, Hundreds yelled as though they had gone mad , others . wept , and a great number leapedinto the dock , and embraced the prisoner wildly . ' Sundry other extravagances were indulged in , and the counsel for the defence were iu the evening , honoured with a serenade . Mr . Sickles was , of course , liberated . A serious difficulty had sprung up in Utah between General Johnstone and

Judge Cradlebaugh on the one side , and Governor Gumming ou tho other , growing out of the call of the judge upon the general for his troops to protect his court , which action was distasteful to the governor , who is detained by the Mormons . A l ' r ghtful accident occurred on Friday evening , on . the Cornwall line of railway recently opened . The train from Plymouth bad reached the Notter viaduct , near St . Germans , when tho engine got off the way , and was precipitated from a height of forty-five feet into the water below , dragging after it several of the carriages .

As far as is yet ascertained , the guard , fireman , and driver , havo lost their lives . James Hughes , in custody charged with the sacrilegious destruction of paintings at Marylebonc church , has boon committed for trial . In the Court of Queen ' s Bench on Thursday , the case of Scully v . Ingram , was again brought forward . Mr . Edwin James opposed the rule nisi for a new trial , which Mr . Bovill had obtained on Mr . Ingram's behalf . -At the Middlesex sessions , John Wilson , described as an " agent , " and Eliza Edwards , a half blind woman , were indicted for stealing a

copper boiler . It appeared that the male prisoner had been connected with a gangwho hired houses , and extorted money from the owners , to give them up again , - and committed various frauds on tradesmen . The judge condemned Edwards to four , and WUsou so twelve months' imprisonment , remarking ou the bad and cowardly conduct of the latter in inducing the former to commit frauds from which he ( Wilson ) derived all the benefit , and the poor woman all the risk . At Richmond , a surgeon named Smethurst , has been arrested upon suspicion of poisoning his reputed wife , but who was not actually married to him . It is said

that the deceased was possessed of property , which the prisoner was aware ot , and some arrangements had been desired to be made for the disposal of a portion . She fell ill , and was attended by Drs . Julian and Bird , of Richmond , who administered proper medicine . All their attention and medicine acted quite contrary to the desired effect , and she expired in groat agony on Tuesday morning . It being the opinion of the medical gentlemen who attended her that she had beeu poisoned , the prisoner was apprehended , aud taken before the magistrates , who decided on remanding the prisonerthat the viscera might be analysed by Professor

, Taylor . At Nottingham a surgeon named Thackeray , has been committed to take his trial for manslaughter , in consequence of the death of a poor woman under his hands in her confinement Ho is accused of being drunk , and of acting with brutal indifference . This is , however , only one side of the atovy , as represented by the deceased ' s relations . William M'Cormaok , a farmer , residing at Derryhaw , near Tynan , Armagh , was found murdered near his own houso on Thursday . It is stated that the deceased took some land from which a person had

been evicted . A man named James Scarret , occupying workshops in White-row , Whitechapel , was charged at Worship-street police-court on Saturday with wilfully setting fire to his premises . The evidence , as far as it went , disclosed a most deliberate arrangement for accomplishing a thorough destruction of tho place . ft is presumed the object was to defraud the insurance company .- Tho Duke of Leeds expired ol : dipthcria , tit half-past four o ' clock on Wednesday afternoon , after a short but severe illness . In default of issue , the dukedom and

other dignities devolve upon his cousin , Lord Godolphin , eldest son of the first peer of that title , who was elder brother of the late duke ' s father . The Court of Common Council , on Thursday , voted the sum of one hundred guineas to the Neapolitan exiles , not , as tho speakers were careful to say , from a charitable motive alone , but in vindication of the great principle of freedom . The election of judge of tho Sheriffs'Court then took place . There were a great many candidates , but most of them received very little support . Mr . Ivevr was ultimately elected by a majority of two over Mr , Conic . Baron von Humboldt , as a telegraphic coni _