The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-20 00:00:00

A HUSBJLYD IN SEARCH OF HIS WIFE

Mr. James rermewan, lately residing in London, 1'35
been committed for trial by the St. CoLimb (Cornwall)
magistrates for a • Most extraordinary outrage. Dir°'
Permewan recently left her husband, it seems, becaris°
he Lad need thrcats towards her, and went to
reside with Ler brother-in-law near St. Coltimb Major.
Her husl,aud, armed with a life-preserver and- other
weapons, and accompanied by fifteen ruffians whore
he had hired for the occasion, went to her brother-in'
law's house and demanded his wife. The men or'

rounded the house, but their approach having been
noticed the doers were locked. One of Mr. Roves'
(the brother-in-law) servants asked Mr. Permewan his
business, and was immediately knocked down by a life•
preserver. Mr. Rowse armed himself with a double•
barrelled gun, and refused the defendant admission, but
he forced an entrance by breaking open the door with 3
sledgehammer. In the meantime the police had been
sent for, but before their arrival Mr. Permewan
his men bad succeeded in carrying off one of Dir'
Permewan's sons. The police, then got a warrant'
and just as he was starting for St. Austell he 11143
arrested.

?POTTIER ATLANTIC CABLE.

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The Daily News contains a long description of the French
Atlantic Cable. This—the third cable—between Europe
and America will, if all goes well, be open to the public
about the middle of July. The Anglo-French Company
stands just now in a position similar to that occupied by
the new Atlantic Company in 1E65, and the Anglo.
American Company in 1866. It has ordered the best pea'
Bible cable from the best makers ; but it will not take por
session of it until after it has been laid, and when the
electricians certify the communication between the Or°
continents to be perfect. The French cable hoe
been made, and will be laid from English ships, 191
Englishmen, the Telegraph Construction and Blainte•
nance Company having undertaken the contract, Sie
Samuel Canning being the engineer-in-chief of the We'
3ition, and the Great Eastern having been chartered Or
the work. The present cable is some twelve hundred miles
.onger than either of its predecessors ; it is divided int°,
several sections, and has been manufactured at the rate e 1
150 miles a week ever since the contract was accepted. 0
is within 100 miles of completion, and has nearly all been
shipped on board the vessels appointed to carry it out. Mee
the Great Eastern carries 2,752 miles, or about 400 more than
when it left with the Anglo-American Cable, its vast
receptacles being made still vaster, and its main tank
considerably enlarged. With this cargo the great 814
will leave her present rest'ng-place in the Medway about
the 10th of June, and will proceed to Portland. Here °
few days will be spent in taking in coal, after which she
will go to an appointed spot some five and a half geilee
from Brest. One of the vessels of the expedition (the
Chiltern) will in the meantime have laid the heavy shore
end, and this will be buoyed out at sea at the distance
named. The Great Eastern will, somewhere about the
20th June, pick it up, and after splicing and testing
will set about her regular work of cable-laying'
under Sir Samuel Canning and his staff. She will be
accompanied by the Scanderia, a fine vessel of 1,800 tong
and 370 feet long, now lying alongside her in the Medway'
and by the Chiltern, both ships being fitted up with
grappling irons, buoys, and picking-up machinery. Some
eighteen days will be occupied by the Great Eastern in the
voyage from Brest to St. Pierre ; and the line being laid
between these two places, the other cable-laying vessels
will carry on the remainder. The Scanderia, the
Chiltern, and the William Cory will each beer
portions of the cable across the Atlantic. The latter
proceeds to St.- Pierre early in June, and having
laid a shore-end there, will buoy the course and wait the
arrival of the Great Eastern. This over, Sir Samuel
Canning will leave the latter ship, which will return t°
England, and will take his place on board the WWII°
Cory. Another shore-end, of course in direct comeouni•
cation with the line to Brest, and onehundred and sevellti.
four miles of cable will be laid. Then Sir Samuel Canning
changes ships again, and splicing this portion with that on
board the Scanderia proceeds on board the latter vessel to
lay 450 miles more on the way to Boston. The Chiltern and
her cargo are called into requisition next, and another snlice
made, The 152 miles added now carry the cable direct
into Boston, and the line will be thus made oar
plete between the latter place and the French port.
All who know anything of the last cable-laying exnedi.
tions will rejoice to learn that the then chief officer of the
Great Eastern has been appointed her captain since the
resignation of Sir James Anderson. Captain Halpin is
known and honoured among our mercantile marine as
brave officer and an accomplished seaman. Sir
Daniel Gooch, Bart., M.P., will go out in the
Great Eastern as chairman of the company which
makes and lays the cable ; and several of the
French directors, and a selection of English electricians
including Sir William Thompson, will be also on board'
There will be no ladies, however, and, so far as is known'
no one without a distinct task to perform. Mr. Wil-
loughby Smith will, as formerly, act as the electrician ‘34
the company. It should be mentioned that the electric
tests of the cable have been and are continuous, and that
not a single fault has been discovered in it from the COra'
mencement of its manufacture until now. In addition to
the task before her, the Great Eastern leaves for Bombay
with the British Indian cable, together with Sir Samuel
Canning and his staff, early in November next.

The statement that her Royal Highness the
Princess Christian has been suffering from milk feverle
contradicted. Her Royal Highness has not, it is said,
had any kind of fever, but only a nervous attack, which
has not given rise to serious apprehensions.
TUE NEW PERMANENT UNDER-SECRETARY 1914
IRELAND.—It is understood that Mr. Burke, private
secretary to Mr. C. Fortescue, has been appointed to
succeed Sir E. Wetherall in the office of Under-Secretary
The appointment is regarded with general satisfaction.
TUE LATE BRECKNOCK ELECTION.—A petition
against the return of Lord Hyde has been presented at
the Common Pleas Rule Office. Lord Hyde was'eleetei
after the unseating of Mr. Gwyn by Mr. Baron Martin on
the oth ult.

The oldest living ex-member of the House or
Commons is Mr. James Dupr6e, of Wilton Park, Buck'
inghamshire. He was born in 1778, and, according to the
"County Families," he entered Parliament in 1802 a. 4
member for Gatton, a " rotten " borough in the patronage
of his relatives, the Alexanders.
THE DISPUTED PEER AGE. —Mr. Charles 11.•
Howard, of the 9th Lancers, in spite of the letter
addressed to the papers by " Ellen Howard" on behalf of
her baby boy, has assumed his uncle's title, and his nano
appears as " the Earl of Wicklow " in the lists of company„
present at various aristocratic parties at the West-end
during the last week.
Harviestoun, the seat of the 'Cults, and with.
which the. name of the father of the present Archbishop
of Canterbury was so long and so honourably connected'
together with the adjoining property of Castle Campbell,
lias lately become by purchase the property of Sir 11'
Orr, of Glasgow, and the only plot of ground
Clackmannanshire at
.present owned by the Tait fatuilY
is their burial-place, a small semi-circular enclosure'
which is washed by the Devon, and is known as "'Faits'
Tombs."

A STRANGE OCCURRENCE.—ScarceIy a month 10
elapsed since the younger daughter of the late Dr'
Littlehales, banker, of.. Winchester, was found dead in her
bedroom, she having committed suicide by strangulationi
Much sympathy was felt at the time for the family °
the deceased. Great consternation was again caused °II
Wednesday afternoon on it becoming known that a sister
(Ann Littlehales) had also committed suicide. She wag
found in her bedroom between twelve and one o'clock,
with her bead nearly severed from her body by souse
sharp instrument. •-

A REMARKABLE TALL —A remarkable tale 19
related as having taken place in Preston. A spinner
became possessed of bank notes more than two years ng°
to the amount of £lOO. It appears that a little time '`go
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a gypsy and his child solicited charity at the spinner
house, and amongst other things received a pair of in(l.
pressibles. He presently returned with a £2O note, which
he said he had found in the linings of the unmentionable,:
The. honesty of the man was much commended until It
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was found that he had kept back four other notes, and not
being able to pass them had returned one to see if they
were genuine. He naturally went on the spree, but Ills_
joy was of short duration, for he was taken into cu 7 todY:
and on pleading guilty Wl5 suitenced to enva I!"-
piloozinah'