The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-05 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Col. J. B. Riddell, C. 8., has succeeded Col. W. R.
Nedham in command of the Royal Artillery stationed in
the Chatham district.

The Rev. W. M. Wright, chaplain to the Ist Division of
the Depot Brigade, Royal Artillery, has been ordered from
Chatham to Birr, and will be succeeded by the Rev. G.
Lawless,

On Friday four officers and 150 men of the Ist and 2d
battalion of the Coldstream Guards left Eastbourne for We-
llington Barracks, having cott,pleted their course of firing.
On the same day
six officers and 130 men of the same bat ta-
lions arrived at Eastbourne, to go through a course of mus •
ketry instruction at the Government range, which has been
very much improved since last year, a good road having been
made from the redoubt to the butts. The men are now all
quartered in the redoubt and martello towers, instead of a
portion of them having to go under canvas, as formerly.
Col. Charles Bingham, C. 8., Deputy Adjt. of the Royal
Artillery, is suffering from severe illness. The gallant officer
is in consequence obliged to absent himself from his office
at the Horse Guards.

ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—About a quarter to 9
o'clock on Saturday night last Joseph Broadhead,
of Barnsley, a youth 17 years of age, under sentence of de-
tention at the Calder vain Reformatory, Mirfield, near
Dewsbury, made an attempt to murder two women, and
succeed d in wounding one very dangerously. Broadhead for
some time past has been acting as kitchen boy at the insti-
tution, and on Saturday night, after finishing his duties in
the bread-room—an apartment where he had been employed
—he fastened a door leading into the schoolhouse, and, tak-
ing up a large carving- knife, he went into the schoolmaster's
sitting-room adjoining. In this place Mrs. Johnson, the
schoolmaster's wife, and Miss Louisa Johnson, his sister,
were seated at the time, and Broadhead rushed up to the
former, and tried to stab her. She luckily evaded him, and
ran ucstairs with the intention of raising an alarm, but
failed in doing so, for she fainted. Miss Johnson, now left
alone with Broadhead, tried to escape through the bed-
room, but he rushed upon her, stabbed her in the side and
then in the shoulder, causing two very serious wounds, the
knife in the first case glancing off one of her ribs and so sav-
ing her life, at least for a time. She fell in the room covered
with blood, and Broadhead, evidently thinking his work
completed, tried to escape through the window of the sitting
room, but was seized by Mr. Repple, the governor of the
reformatory, and held till assistance arrived. Miss Johnson
had medical-aid as soon as it could be procured, and, thongh
she lies in a precarious state, she was reported yesterday as
likely to recover, The prisoner first said that two men had
committed the deed, and that they had attacked him and
destroyed part of his clothes—when taken his clothes were
found to b 3 much damaged, and there was blood on his per-
son—but afterwards he changed his story, aaid he had
burnt the sleeves of his coat and other portions of his ap-
parel, and had tried to murder the two ladies. He said that
he had entertained the design ever since the previous Wed-
nesday, but could not tell why, for the Johnsons had been
very kind to him. lie was taken to the Dewsbury lockup,
where he now lies.-41anchester Examiner.

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