The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-19 00:00:00

SHEERNESS DOCKYARD.

tie Rev. John Keble—at .Bisley Rectory. Within
Len days from the marriage of a niece of that beloved
ecclesiastic to the only son of the popular novelist,
Mrs. Gor3on SmythicS, an elder married sister of the
young bride, who had travelled an immense distance
in order to 1 c present at the nuptial cerernoly, was
doomed to breathe her last prm.aturely iu childbed.
The infant survives ; tye mother being int:Tred in
Ole early cloys of her young bride-sister'. honcytnoon..
So that in ten days a lair : It, a death, a inar..ia;e, and
a" `,ll.wral cli quertcl the home-h's'ory of the Bisley
Itectry.
he division li
Rill was not inaptly howled
reading, of the Irish Lama._
ota the 1116 row cf the second
in The :'en"l he eleven'agains!:. a"." h'114‘1.'111"
Disraeli never delivered a more humorous
tban that with which he enlivened the debate on the _
last evening.. As for the Premier's peroration it was a world.-
galled" The Royal ..
very finely impassioned—being, perhars, only too

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The rumoured closin-ofgheerness Dockyard has
led to much excitement. There is no immediate inten-
tion of closing Sheerness:and the eventual abandon-
ment of that yard depends upon the completion of
arrangements in progress and in contemplation at
Chatham.

The Queen of the Netherlands will remain about
ten days longer in this country.
H.R.H. the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief
held alevee to-day at one o'clock. The number of officers
to attend was limited to 150.
MR. WOODIN.—The hundredth representation of
this gentleman's entertainment at the Egyptian 1411, Picea
dilly, took place yesterday evening. •
THE BEVERLEY ELECTION.—The case of Regina
v. Sir Henry Edivards-,-for-aileged bribery at the Beverley
election, has been postponed. The trial has been set down
for Monday.
It is probable that the greater portion of the
building in Pall Mall, where the business of the War Office
is carried on, will be vacated, and that the Board of Trade
wll be removed from Whitehall-gardens to these premises.

It is stated that Captain Berkeley, the eldest son
of the late member for Wisiol, has been invited by the In-
dependent Liberals to become a candidate for that city.
Captain Belieley i 3 described as a Churchman and a- mode-
rate Liberal.

DFATII OF it. ROWDEN.—We have to announce
the death of Edward Wetherell Bowden, D.0.L., Registrar
of the University of Oxford, which took place, after an ill-
ness of about a month's duration, yesterday evening, at his
residence, lb, St. Giles's, Oxford.
It is stated that marriages are on the lapis between
Lord Henley and Miss Jett()11; between Mr. Tracey, eldest
'son of Sir Henry Stracey, Bart., and Miss Mary .DO3 Voeux ,
the Rev. Malcolm WOoll and Miss Octavio Drake ; and Mr.
Wemnau AtOA-ey Wykcham, and Miss Jane Giey, third
d.,u,2hter of Admiral the Hon. George Grey.
i:EAL CHARITY. The Commi tee of the Metropo-
litan Free llospital have just received the loco nificet t
donation of one thousand muds from an unknown friend,
under the initials E. G.; and tat guineas from the Wcr-
shipful Company of Vintl.ers.

'Re very extensive Distillery now being erected
at Beifeist, with. all recent improvem3nts for the manufacture of
TPish whisky, by Messig. DUNVIi•,LE & Co., who have gain3ti
Celebrity for their fine old le:sb. Whisky, is to be
"r• 4.11. Distillery."