The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-01 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day,

Market steady. Sales probably 10,000 bales or
more.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The vitt of the Hon. Cnarlotte Shore, of Hove,
Sussex, was proved in the London Court on the Bth
ult., the executors and trustees therein appointed
being the Right Hon. Charles John, Baron Teign•
mouth, LL D., D.C.L , F.R S. (the brother); and
Colonel Edward Charles Fietcher (the brother•in
law), of Kenward, Yeldirg. Toe personalty was
sworn under £16,000. Her ladyship was the
daughter of the first Baron T,icylmouth, who sue
ceeded Lord Cornwallis as Governor-General of
India. Her ladyship attained the age of seventy-
seven, and executed her will in 1854, and a codicil
thereto in 1859; bequeathing, at the wish of her
father and mother, the sum of £13,000 Consols
in trust for two of lit.r nieces and two of her
nephews; leaving a few other legacies to other of
her relatives; also a logacy of £1,500 to her niece,
the eldest daughter of her brother Lord Teignenouth,
appointing his lordship residuary legatee. There
is a legacy of £lOO to her own servant free of duty.
The will of Frederick Richard Magenis, Esq , of
Grosvenor-place, was proved in London by the
executors and trustees, Sir Arthur Charles Mage-
nis, K C. 8.; Thomas F. Wallace, Esq., of St.
James-street, Westminster; and William T. Car-

lisle, E-q., of Lincoln's Inn—the personalty being
sworn at £140,000. The will and first codicil are
dated F b., 1861. There are altogether six codi-
cils, the last (Med March 31,1861, and the testator
died on the 11th of the following month. After
making liberal bequests,amounting to about £50,000,
including legacies of £5OO to each of his executors,
alB3 legacies to his servants—to one man-servant,
£500; to his housekeeper, coachman and groom
each £200; to all his other domestics legacies, and
to his late butler an annuity ; also many charitable
hi qucsts—he leaves the residue of his property to
iris daughter, Eoz ibeth Florence, wife of James
Wiliiam Bailie, E-q. His yacht the Minx, he
leaves to the Captain. The following are among
the charitable bequests:—To the Royal National
Lifeboat Institution, £1,000; Ragged School Union
£5OO ; Field-lane Rigged School ; Houseless and
Destitute Dormitories, Bloomsbury and Great
Queen.street ; Convalescent Institution, Walton
on-Thames ; Middlesex Hospital ; Royal Free
Hospital, Grays inn-roed ; the Dreadnought ; Ship-
wrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Society; Royal
Sea Baihing Infirmary, Margate, each £200; and
£lOO to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals.

The will of Roger Cunliffe, EQq., of Buck!ersbury,
banker, and of Highbury-place, was proved in Lon-
don by his sons, Roger Cunliffe and E. S. Canliffe,
E•grs., the executors and trustees. The personalty
was sworn under .C 120,000. The will bears date
Sept. 8, 1863, and a codicil on in,- February follow-
ing, and he dial on May 18, 1864. He has dis-
posed of his property principally among his sons
and daughters, b. questhing to his two sons imme-
diate legacies of £4,000, and an equal snare in the
residue of his estate. To each of his five daughters

£10,000; and there are legacies to other members
of his family. He desires that no money be taken
from his share in the business but what may be
absolutely necessary, and to bear an interest of 4:6
per cent, and that three months' notice be given to
the partnership firm of any sums required exceeding
£l,OOO. There is one clause in the will we quote in
his own words---.' And hare I wish to explain that
there are no legacies given to religions or charitable
institutions by this my will, because it has always
appeared to me more proper to make such gifts in
the lifetime, and this I have been in the habit of
doing constantly during a period of more than forty
years."

THE WOMEN'S DUEL.—Some additional facts in
connexion with this caee, some of the extraordinary
features of which were reported in The Sun a day or two
ago, have transpired since the committal of the prisoner for
trial to Lincoln it ssizes. The attempt by theprisonsr (Martha
unwell, it will De recollected, was most determined, and her
intended victim had an exceedingly narrow escape. The pri•

soner, in company with Miss Johnson and four otheryouog
ladies, was quietly returning home to Springthorpe, after
visiting Gainsborough, It was a quiet, I,vely evening, and
the party had arrived at a lonely part of the road, near
Somerby-wood, when the prisoner, without any quarrel, or
the slightest intimation of her purr ose, threatened to shoot
Miss Johnson, and at once fired deliberately at her face. The
muzzle of the pistol was so close to Miss Johnson that her
forehead was scorched, and the only circumstance which,
humanly speaking, thwarted the prisoner's diabolical pur-
pose was the heavy charge of the pistol. This caused the
weapon when fired to be deflected upwards, and the con-
tents, in c. nscquence, went harmlessly over head. The:
recoil of the pistol, however, caused the upper part
of the cock to strike the prisoner's hand wish con
siderable violence, inflicting on her a severe flesh wound.
This created a diversion in her victim's favour, and,
in all probability, enabled her, by escaping, to avoid a
second shot, for the prisoner Fursued her with the pistol in
one hand and the other hand in her pocket, apparently
with the intention of reloading the pistol, as a supply of
balls, shots, powder, and caps were afterwards found in
her pockets. Miss Johnson, however, safely escaped to
the nearest farmhouse, and the prisoner, finding her designs
baffiA, went on to Springthorpe. Miss Johnson had been
in the habit o
of a
t h music to the prisoner's pupils, but
some iuse g ciug
quarrel took place between her and the pi i-
'ago

sonar. She continued, however, her ptofessional visits, and
on several occasions remained at the prisoner's all night.
When staying there the prisoner eevetal times threatened
in the middle of the night to shoot her, at the same time
pointing a pistol at her, and on one of these occasions
Miss Johnson saw that the pistol was loaded with ball.
Since the prisoner's committal the police have discovered
that the pistol with which the deed was attempted to be
committed wa. purchased about a fortnight previously. Thy
prisoner has voluntarily informed the police how she loaded
it. She first, she says, put in two thimblefuls of powder,
then some shot, and at !he top a ball or bullet. On her way
to Lincoln Castle, teem to await her trial, she drew the at-

tension of the policeman who had charge of her to the spot
where executions take place at that city, and said, " I should
havo been proud to have hung there it only I had accom-
plished my purpose." She even went further, and said it
she were at liberty and had the chance she would still carry
out her intention. A. book which belonged to the prisoner
has been found containing the draught of a will dated the
very day of the attempted murder, and a statement of ac-
counts, all posted up to that day. She repeatedly informed
the police that she had gone to Gainborough on the
night in question with the inn determination either of in-
ducing Mias Johnson to let bygones bo bygones and visit
her on the same terms as formerly, or of shoo big her and
then herself. prisoner has b.ivn National schoolmistress
at Springthorpe bbout
nine years. She is a married
woman, about 45 years of age,
but has been livirg apart
from her husband for many years. There can be no doubt
about her having the full possession of her faculties.
In the evidence before the magistrates mention was
made of a quarrel which took place between Miss John-
son and the prisoner about eighteen months ago. The
cause of this quarrel has not been made clear, but, from the
prisonet's own statements, it seems to have had something to
do with the school. Several of her pupils had left her school
to go to another one that had been established in the village.
These pupils Miss Johnson went to teach, and discontinued
her visits to the prisoner. At this the prisoner was very
much annoyed, and she has been brooding over the matter
ever since—so much so that for weeks together, as she told
the police, she had no sleep. She therefore resolved to end
it one way or the other. Prisoner does not seem to feel the
position in which she is placed the least.

FISHING BY ELECTRIC LIGHT.--A first attempt
was made to fish by eleotrie ligut a short time since
at Dunkirk. The light wag supplied by a pile on Bunsen's
principle, composed of about 50 elements, and it succeeded
tolerably well, but the etoPloyment of the pile was attended
with much inconvenience. It was then determined to
repeat the attempt with a magneto-electric machine.
The new experiments tried at Dunkirk and Ostend
had a double object-1, to prove how the light pro-
duced by the machine would act under water; and
2, to discover the effect the light would produce on the fish.
The first object was completely accomplished, and it is now
demonstrated that magneto-electric machines and the light
they produce are applicable to all submarine woiks.
In
fact, this light was constant at 180 feet under water, and it
extended over a large surface. The machine, nevertheless,
was placed at a distance of more than 300 feet from the
regulator of the electric light. The glass sides of the lantern
remained perfectly transperent, aad the quantity of coal
consumed were less than if it were in the open air.
The other day, a not very prepossessing looking
person, named Sohn Doherty, about 22 years of
age, made an application at the Leeds Police office for the
situation of "hangman for the West Riding." He said
he belonged to Glasgow, and hearing that Leeds h been
made an assize town, naturally concluded that a hangman
would be wanted, and started off :o make a personal appli-
cation. He expressed himself quire able to " serag'em," as
h te,rned it, although the (nil), emperience he bail had was
iu having seen two persons executed at Glasgow. He
was referred to the High Sheriff of the orantr,