The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-21 00:00:00

A LISBON STORY.

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A strangetragecly is announced from Lisbon. SenhorViera I
de Castro, formerly Deputy, and an author of some note,
has strangled his wife. He found that she was carrying
on an underhand correspondence with Senhor Maria de
Garrett, who was ponsidured one of his most intimate
friends, and in the end she confessed her actual guilt.
The husband then half smothered her with chloroform,
after which he completed her death by strangulation. De
Garrett, to whom he afterwards sent a challenge for a
duel et l'outrance, declined to fight him, but intimated
that he was willing to lose his life as an expiation for the
injury inflicted, aiding that he should pass a
certain spot at such an hour. The injured man, how-
ever, did not carry his revenge further, but went to
the Prefecture of Police and constituted himself prisoner.
The other has, it is rumoured, entered a Trappist monas-
tery. The murdered lady was only nineteen.

At the Preston Petty Seasions a j uryman in one
of the cases was " caught napping." Mr. Addison the
counsel for the defence, said he trusted that those of the
jury who had been asleep during the hearing of the case
would not endeavour to influence the decision of those
who had been awake.
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The last term before the Long Vacation corn 7
y-mences on Thursday next. The-anticipations respecting
business of last term were not fulfilled, and stagnation
is loudly complained of throughout the profession.
Trinity Term does not promise any improvement; and
the Long Vacation will, it is thought, shew no signs of
improvement.
The Irish Times mentions a report that the Lind-
Lieutenancy of Londonderry, now vacant, will be offered
to Mr. Baron Martin, who has property in the county to
the exteilt b.A:ween 23,000 and X 4,000 a year. The
learned judge, who has been for twenty Years on the Bench,
expreswd the wish last year to retire from active judicial
service.

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Summonses for amounts due on rates on the pro-
perty of charitable institution's have been taken out by
the Birmingham overseers. The summonses are returnable
for Thursday next, but as the second reading of Mr.
Muntz's bill exempting charitable institutions from the
payment of rates comes on in the House on Wednesday
for a second reading, it is probable that the application
for distress warrants will not be enforced.
Mr. Edmund Yates, in the Western Mail Bay,
has the following in reference to the Newspaper Benevo-
lent Fund dinner :—" Your readers will perhaps have
observed that no report of the prcieeedings- was given by
the Times. That journal has been resolutely, opposed to
the Newspaper Benevolent Fund since its institution, and,
true to its usual practice, carries out a sorry spite by
ignoring the existence of thii charity. Dr. Russell, hew-
ever, thinks differently from his colleaguesonthis subject,
and makes a point of attending the anniversary festival."
A. diabolical act was committed at Bromley on
Thursday. It appears that some person contrived to throw
doWn the chimney of a house in Market-street a canister
of gunpowder, which immediately on reaching the fire ex-
ploded with a loud noise. • The force -of the shock threw
the servant girl onthe floor, burnt a portion of her hair off
her head, and scorched her severely. Had the outrage
been perpetrated a --few minutes . earlier the Come-
glicsees NlrOiittlikroba,bly have been more disastrous, as the
'y had been sitting near the fire with an infant on