The Sun.
London, England, 1871-02-22 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
The Admiralty yacht Enchantress, with the First Lord
on board, arrived at Madeira on the 11th inst. Mr.
Childers was carried on shore fit a hammock. The
Enchantress reached Madeira in four and a half days.—
The completion and departure of the Sultan, 12, iron
armour-plated broadside ship, from Chatham Dockyard,
liberated many hundreds of workmen who had been em-
ployed for months upon the ship, while lying in the
stream, in completing the upper deck battery and the
interior of the vessel, and these men have now been
placed on other ships which are approaching completion
at Chatham—the Glatton, 2, iron turret ship ; the Wood-
lark;'l, wooden gun-vessel; and the iron gunboats Snake
and Scourge—all of which are now making rapid progress,
and will soon be ready to be floated out or launched. The
Woodlark will be almost ready for service on leaving the
slip, except her masts and rigging, for all her machinery
is on board. The Rupert, ironclad ram, is also being built
at Chatham; a small vessel, the Kestrel, is ordered to be
built ; and probably an armourclad ship of the Sultan
class will shortly be commenced.

The Challem-rer, unarmoured screw corvette, 18 guns,
1,426 tons, 400-horse power, Captain Howley Lambert,
C. 8., arrived at Spithead about noon on Monday from
the coast of Australia, where Captain Lambert has been
flying a Commodore's pennant of the second class. Upon
entering the roadstead she saluted the flag of Admiral Sir
James Hope, G.C.8., the Port Admiral and Naval Com-
mander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, the compliment being re-
turned from the guns of the Admiral's flagship in Ports-
mouth harbour, the Duke of Wellington. The Challen-
ger's orders were transmitted to her by signal from the
flagship, and she left Spithead again under steam for
Sheerness, where she will be dismantled and paid out of
commission. The Challenger was commissioned in April,
1866, but Captain Lambert's appointment to her as Second
Class Commodore bears date May 28, 1867.

The Earl of Abergavenny and Mr. Philip Rose, of
the firm of Baxter, Rose, and Norton, have withdrawn
from the Junior Carlton Club, in consequence of the treat-
ment to which Mr. Richardson-Gardiner has been sub-
jected by the committee.

THE DIVISION ON THE TESTS BILL.—The majority
of 182 against Mr. Fawcett's amendment comprised about
70 Liberals, including the Prime- Minister, the Marquis
of Hartington, Mr. Forster, Mr. Bruce, and the other
members of the Ministry who voted, and also Liberals
whose religious opinions greatly differ, such as Sir Roundell
Palmer, Mr. Samuel Morley, Sir T. Bailey, and many
Irish Catholic members.• The majority also included Mr.
Disraeli, Mr. Gathorne Hardy, Mr. W. H. Smith, and
Mr. B. Hope. The minority of 160 who supported Mr.
Fawcett's amendment was composed of 159 Liberals and
a solitary Conservative —Mr. 0. Wethered. Amongst the
Liberals were Mr: E. Miall, Mr. Horsman, Mr. Jacob
Bright, and Mr. T. Hughes. Mr. Lowe did not vote.
IMPORTANT FAILURE IN THE IRON TRADE.—A.
meeting of the creditors of Samuel Hingley, trading as
Samuel Hingley and Co., of Corbyn's Hall Ironworks,
has been called. The liabilities are estimated as amount-
ing to nearly £30,000, and in consequence of the large
sum expended on the works the liquidation is
expected to be very unfavourable. Mr. Samuel Hingley,
some four years ago, resigned his position in
the firm of N. Hingley and Sons, and took
upon lease the ironworks of Corbyn's Hall from Mr.
William Mathews, for the manufacture of sheets and

plates. A considerable outlay was
,made in renovations
and the purchase of machinery, and large liabilities in
consequence created. The indebtedness is principally
divided between creditors in the trade and builders and
engineers for work done. Messrs. N. Hingley and Sons
and Messrs. Hingleys and Smith have issued a circular,
stating that Mr. Samuel Hingley has no connection with
their firm.—Birmingham Gazette.

A PLurfAusT.—At the West Riding Court, at
Bradford, the other day, a man of 56 years, named Robert
Dalby, a schoolmaster, lately residing at Cleckheaton,
and possessed of freehold property in that locality, was
charged with having, while his lawful wife, Mary
Copley, was alive, unlawfully intermarried with three
other women—viz., Ann Roberts, Margaret Scholes, and
Mary Mortimer. Two months ago the prisoner was com-
mitted by the magistrates for a violent assault upon
Mary 'Ann Mortimer, his last unlawful wife, and on -his
return from prison he was apprehended for the offence
of intermarrying with these several women. The prisoner
had married no fewer 'than six times. One of the wives
married was dead, and the " whereabouts " of one could
not be found. His lawful wife now living was Mary
Ccpley. She was married to the prisoner at the parish
church, Calverley, near Leads, in the year 1845. The
marriage was proved by documentary evidence, and also
by witnesses who were present. The marriages of the other
three women were proved by dlcumentary evidence and also
by the women themselves: The prisoner was married to
Ann Roberts, at the Holy Trinity Church, Hulm e, Man-
chester, in April, 1859 ; to Margaret Scholes the parishto
church, Rochdale, on the 11th of March, 1865 ;and
Mary Ann Mortimer, at the parish church, Birstal, near
Leeds,. in August, 1870. He lived with his lawful wife
and also with some of these women
and
for several years,
and had children by them. When apprehended
charged with the offence the prisoner stated that "there
was only one honourable marriage in the lot," and
that was " in the case of the woman from Wales"—Ann
Roberts —althou h this was not true, and he subsequently
stated, stated, with extraordinary nary coolness, that "he had been
for years seekirg an honourable woman to settle down
with." Mrs. Scholes fainted when in the witness-box, and
had to be removed for some time. The prisoner was com-
mitted for trial at the assizes, the bench refusing to accept

SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
About four o'clock on Monday morning a serious acci-
dent occurred on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-
colnshire Railway. It appears that on the night goods
train from Retford to Manchester arriving at Dunford
Bridge the engine was detached to take up three or four
waggons. It is said that the guard, whose name is
I\l'Hughes, of Manchester, put Ms brake on. As
soon as he had got into the siding he saw the waggons
which we had left on the down line moving towarde
Penistone. Most of them were loaded to a considerable
height, and the strong wind which prevailed having great
power over them, they soon acquired a rapid speed. The
guard ran after them, and " spragged " a wheel of one of
the waggons, but he could not stop the train. The
gradient is about lin 150. The guard rode on until he
was knocked off the waggons at or near Penistone—five
miles from Dunford. He was severely shaken. The man
on duty at Dunford, seeing what had occurred, telegraphed
to Penistone, andthe engine was transferred to the up line
and it started after the runaway waggons. The message
was received at Penistone by Edward Sims, who at once
set open the points so as to turn the approaching waggons
into the warehouse sidings. The waggons and the pur-
suing engine arrived about the same time at Penistone,
and the former came into collision with three laden
trucks and a composite carriage which stood in the
sidings. The three trucks, loaded with coal, grain, and
lime, were driven into the Penistone and Huddersfield
turnpike road, which for several hours was completely
blocked. Fortunately the runaway waggons, on entering
the siding, got off the rails, and their speed was reduced.
Part of them, however, ran into a t.:oods warehouse, nearly
half of which they demolished. Five or six of the wag-
gons were much broken. The damage is estimate I at from
£7OO to £l,OOO.

LAW AND POLICE.
MRs. GODRICH AND HER FATHER'S WILL.—Mrs.
Godrich, the petitioner in the case of Godrich v. Godrich
and the respondent in the late case of Godrich v. God-
rich, Lara, Brient, Fader and Kelsey, is now contesting
the validity of her father's will on the ground of the
testator's insanity, and that undue influence wets used-
over him. She applied to Lord Penzance to appoint an
administrator pendente lite. Mr. Middleton, for the other
side, did not object so longas the admihistrator did not act
without the order of the court. Lord Penzance asked
what the estate consisted of. Mrs. Godrich gave the
various items, which amounted to about £B,OOO, not in-
cluding- the furniture and plate. Lord Penzance said that
an adminstrator must be settled on by the parties, and if
they could not agree in the selection, the registrar would
settle the matter for them. The administrator would not
act without orders from the court. Mrs. Godrich said
that all she wanted was the administrator to get the pro-
perty in his hands.

A PRINCE'S WILL.—In the Probate Court, a question
arose affecting the administration under the will of his
Serene Highness Alfonso D'Avalor, Prince of Pescara.
The Italian Court had directed the propetty of the de-
ceased Prince in this country to be collected. He pos-
sessed £50,000 invested with the Messrs. Rothschild in
Russian bonds. An application was made to
Lord Penzance to make a grant to three
Italian solicitors, limited to this amount, and
he did so. The bonds were at the present time worth
more than the £50,000, an,l it was now asked that
the learned judge would certify that sufficient- security had
been given to cover this extra amount. Lord Penzance
said that as security to the extent of £lOO,OOO had been
given, and as the Inland Revenue rules required that
additional security should be given, the Registrar of the
court would be directed to state that such had bin done.

MURDER AND SUICIDE IN LINCOLN-
SHIRE.

A shocking tragedy has taken place near Grimsby, in
Lincolnshire. On Saturday a brickmaker named Christo-
pher Leedham and his family were at dinner at Stalling-
borough, four miles from Grimsby. Mrs. Leedham,
noticing that her stepson George, aged thirty six,
looked unwell, asked him to have some rice pudding, saying
it would do him good. He ate a little, and then jumped
up, stabbed Mrs. Leedham in the throat with a knife, and
then ran out of the house and threw himself into a pond
in the brickyard. He was rescued by one of his brothers
and a labourer named Jackson. Jackson held Leedham
while the brother went for assistance ; but Leed-
ham struggled with Jackson and again threw himself
into the pond, dragging the man with him.
Jackson freed himself, and Leedham sank directly.
Mrs. Leedham, after receiving the wound, ran out of the
house, but had not gone far before she fell down and died
immediately. Her stepson's body was not got out of the
pond for fifteen or twenty minutes, and life was then
extinct. At the inquest Mr. Leedham, sen., stated that
his son had been wandering about in the fields for several
days, and he (the father) had followed him. "Once (he said)
my son was sitting by the side of a dyke, and said,
What do you follow me about for ?' On Friday night
he came down and made faces in the glass, and asked
where Sally (his mother) was. In the morning I went to
him in bed. He said he was poisoned—that we had
poisoned him. A day or two before he appeared frightened
that I should hurt him. He cried and sobbed out. I felt
his pulse, which was going eight times as fast as it ought.
He said, 'Oh ! father, I shall die broken-hearted.' I
believe he thought of drowning himself two or three
times. I think insanity is in the blood. His grandmother
went off her mind, and had a strait-waistcoat, at Attie-
borough, Warwickshire." The jury found that George
Leedham had committed the murder and suicide while in
a fit of insanity.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVE,:, TY.—The examination for
the open Exhibitions at Trinity-hall will commence on
Tuesday, March 28. Candidates, who must be under 20
'years of age, should send their names, together with testi-
monials of character, to the Rev. Henry Latham, Trinity-
hall, before the 21st of March. The Exhibitions are £BO,
£7O, and £5O a year; they may be obtained by proficiency
either in classics or mathematics.

According to the report of Colonel Bruce, the
chief constable of Lancashire, vagrancy has considerably
decreased, and crime attributable to vagrants has sensibly
diminished. Colonel Bruce expresses an opinion that the
evil might be lessened if there was a full and uniform co-
operation in the different counties, in the several divisions
of counties, and in the boroughs throughout the kingdom,
for adopting some general system for the relief and tem-
porary employment of those who are vagrant by force
of circumstances.

WRECKS ON THE YORKSHIRE COAST.—A move-
ment is on foot to raise a general fund for the relief of the
sufferers and survivors of the numerous wrecks—between
40 and 50—which occurred in Bridlington bay on Friday
week. At Bridlington a committee has been already
formed. It seems impossible to ascertain the names of
all the ships which broke up on that fatal day. Twenty-
three dead bodies were buried at once. At Bridlington a
resolution has been carried to reward the survivors who
in timed Count Batthyany's lifeboat, and to relieve the
widows and orphans of those who perished..

UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE.—The period of strict
training will commence at Oxford on Ash Wednesday, in
accordance with precedent, and the men will have about a
month's practice before appearing on the London water.
The race is considered almost certain to be rowed on the
Ist of April (Saturday), when the tide will serve about 11
o'clock. The Cambridge crew rowed over the usual course
on the Cam on Monday afternoon in the following order :
—Kelly (Caius), 11st. 1 lb. ; Close, sen. (Ist Trinity), list.
101 b. ; Lomax (Ist Trinity) 12st. Tilb.; Spencer (2nd
Trinity) 12st. 6ilb. ; Lowe (Christ's), 12st. 91b. ; Phelps
(Sidney), llet. 121 b. ; Randolph (3rd Trinity), list. 131 b. ;
Goldie (St. John's), 12st. 121 b. Gordon (Trinity), cox.
The crew is improving, and now that Mr. Lowe has re-
covered from his indisposition it is hoped that changes will
be less frequent. Mr. Ridley, of Jesus, an old University
oar, is coaching the men.