The Sun.
London, England, 1871-02-01 00:00:00

MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED WIFE*S SISTER.

The bill for legalising marriage with a deceased wife's
sister, which has repeatedly passed the Commons by large
majorities, and which failed to pass the Lords by a
majority of only four, will be again brought forward by
Mr. Thomas Chambers at the earliest possible day in the
approaching session.

THE SENIOR WRANGLER OF 1871.---Mr. J.
Hopkinson, the Senior Wrangler of this year, is a Dis-
senter, being the son of a deacon of an Independent
Church at Manchester. Ho is the third Nonconformist
Senior Wrangler since the Protectorate. Unless the
Government University Tests Abolition Bill of the forth-
coming session becomes law he will be unable to proceed
to a fellowship of his college. It is proposed at Man-
chester to invite the Senior Wrangler to a public dinner,
and to present Lint with an address of congratulation on
having carried off the blue ribbon of the universities to
Manchester. Sir William Fairbairn and Sir Joseph
Whitworth are spoken of as probable chairmen.
SUDDEN DEATH OF THE HON. MRS ROUS.—It

is with deep regret to have to state that the wife of the
Hon. Admiral Rous died suddenly on Monday morning
at 13 Berkeley-square, London, of heart disease. At a
consultation which was held between Drs. Harding and
Williams, on Sunday, it was not considered that her
state of health, which had been rather weak for some
time past, forboded evil results, and on the night of that
day she was more cheerful than usual. In the morning,
however, she was found dead in bed, but must have
passed away with little if any suffering. She was married
to Admiral Rous in the year 1836
PROFESSOR FAWCETT AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.—
Professor Fawcett has contrived to horrify his staunchest

supporters in Brighton. Mr. Henry Willett, a Radical

Reformer of that town, with whom the learned professor
was wont to stay when he visitsd Brighton, is specially
shocked that Mr. Fawcett should have joined a Repub-
lican Club at Oxford, and amiably refraining from any
attack on Professor Fawcett at the public meeting held
by him and his colleague, does his utmost to place him in
a dilemma by correspondence. Thus he puth it :—" You
were either a Republican at the time of your election, and
had not the morol courage to declare yourself one, or you
have been converted since, and in either case you can no

longer represent those who believed you to be a Reformer,
and not a Republican. You are now, it seems to me, in
the unenviable position of having obtained your seat by
a suppressio veri, or of retaining it in direct opposition to
the views of a portion of your constituency, and a portion
large enough to have prevented your return at the last
election."

THE WORTHLESSNESS OF DETECTIVES. The
London " police," who have been looking after Mr. Torpey,
the gentleman with a liking for diamonds,and who have not
yet caught him, charge their failure upon the newspapers.
The reporters, they say, published the details of the case too
soon, and put Torpey on his guard. The excuse is most
untenable; and, in fact, is one of those which the police
invent to hide their own want of capacity. Mrs. Torpey
was brought before the justices at Leamington on Thurs-
day, and before a London magistrate on Friday. Not a
word of the case appeared in any newspaper until Saturday;
and Torpey, who was at Amsterdam, could not possibly
have known of his wife's arrest until llonday. Thus, the
police had nearly six days to " work " in, and yet they did
nothing. If a telegram had been sent to Amsterdam on
Wednesday, when the woman was arrested, the Dutch
police might have captured the husband, or if an Eng-
lish constable had been sent over at once, he might have
effected the arrest, with plenty of time to spare.
The truth is, however, that the police have done literally
nothing to discover the criminals. They did not find out
Mrs. Torpey at Leamington ; it was the quick-witted
woman with whom she lodged who did that for them.
Torpey's letters, found in his wife's possession, gave the
clue to the husband's residence, but the police were not

sharp enough to use the means put into their hands ; they
find it easier to cackle about the dangers of publicity !
This case is just another proof of the incapacity of the

police as a detective force. When other people tell
Inspector Bucket what to do—perhaps he goes and does

. Left to his own unassisted devices, he looks wise, lays
is finger to his nose—and finds out nothing, or next to it.
-Birmingham Post.