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London, England, 1858-02-08 00:00:00

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[PRIOR 413. STAMPf“. 5 -.]

Admiralty." Tho promotions consequent upon this
death are the following :
Vice-Admiral of the White Robert Wauchope to
be Vice-A!dmiral of the Red.

Vice-Admiral of the Blue Sir J. Stirling to be
Vice-Admiral of the While.

Rear-Admiral of the Red W. J. Rope .3 ohmtone
to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue.
Rear-Admiral of the White T. Bennett to be Roar-
Admiral of the Red.

Rear-Admiral of the Blue J. C. 8., to be
Rear-Admiral of the White.
Capt. R. Crozier (1839) to be Rear-Adrairal on
the reserve] half--pay list.
Capt. the Right Hen. Lord C. E. Paget, 0.8.,
to he Rear-Admiral of the Blue.
By the last promotion a capeain'd good service
pension falls into the gift of the First Lord of the
Admiralty.

Her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert, Capt.
the Hon. J. Denman, and the Osborne Admiralty
yacht, Master-Commsnder Bower, returned to
Portsmouth from Antwerp on Saturday, and the
Fairy, at 1 p.m. yesterday.
The Rochester, naval lighter, sailed from Chat-
ham dockyard on Saturday with war stores for
Devonport dockyard.
The Lapwing, 6, steam despatch gun vessel,
Commander O'Reilly, arrived at Spitheal from the
eastward before daylight on Saturday, and remains
awaiting further orders.
Tho Curagoa, 31, screw frigate, Capt. Mason,
returned to Spithead on Saturday afternoon from
the Thames.

The Valorous, 6, paddlewheel frigate, Capt. Ald-
ham, arrived at Spithead on Saturday from Ant-
werp.
T. 49 t04111._ slow En counter, 14, Capt. ,0' Calla-
ghan, arrived yesterday afternoon at PlYmouth.
She left Aden Nov. 21, reached the Cape Dee. 19,
and sailed on the 23d, reached St. Helena Jan. 2,
and at Ascension on the 7th. Including stoppages,
the passage from Aden to Plymouth was accom-
plished in 78 d Lys. At the Cape she embarked 12
invalids from the Boscawen, five from the Hima-
laya, five from the Sappho, and two formerly be-
longing to the She nn on; at St. Helena two:distressed.
merchant seamen, and at Ascension nine invalids
from the West Coast squadron.
Commander R. T. Bedford, Commander Matthew
Connolly, and Commander A. C. Gordon were on
Saturday promoted to be Captains ; and Lieut.
C C. A. Kennedy, Lieuts. T. Br,,nireth, F. D,
Rich, and J. A. Redon were promoted to the rank
of Commanders.

Th• followin,-, Lieutenants were on Slturday
pvc.,mo'ed to the list of Commanders on the reserved
half-pay, under Her Majesty's orders in Council of
the 25th of June, 1851, and the 30th of January,
1856 :—John R. Black, Raymond Evans, Henry
Perry Dicker), Richard Elsworthy Pym, William
Glassford Hem4worth, Jas. Bowen Somerville,
Job Bennet Clarke, Richard Cotgrave, John
Douglas,Francis Smyth, John Morshead, Richard
Clr:rles Why le, James Sandford. Davison, and
Chas. A. Lodder.

The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :
Captain T. Baillie, to the nit:mess Royal, vic3
Giffard ; Commander F. Cannon, to the Royal
William, vice Bedford, promoted ; Lieut. Douglas
Reid, to the Wellesley, vice Ross ; Lieut. J. C.
Tucker, to the . Conqueror ; Lieut. H. West and
L:eut. T. B. H. Fellowes, to the Marlborough ;
and Mr. R. C. Saunders, to be Naval Instructor to
the Marlborough.

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE AGAINST A

CLERGYMAN AND HIS WIFE.

In The Sun, of Saturday we published a brief
telegraphic account of an extraordinary charge
preferred against the Rev. Samuel Smith, M.A.,
master of the Collegiate School, Clifton, formerly
ma4ter of Bishop's College, Bristol, Subjoined a! e
fuller particulars of the affair, which it will be seen
is of a somewhat mysterious character.

The wife of Mr. Smith was the daughter of a
farmer named Mills, who resided at Walton, near
Canterbury, and before her marriage, which took
place about nine years ago, she counted among her
suitors a Mr. Leach, contractor, of Croydon, Surrey.
The match was, however, broken off. Mr. Leach
shortly afterwards married another lady, and Miss
Mills became the wife of her present husband. Mr.
Smith's marriage proved unhappy, and about two
months since Mrs. Smith, having ascertained the
fact that Mr. Leach had become a widower, ad-
dressed a letter to him, in which she stated that her
husband had died very recently, and invited Mr.
Leach, if so disposed, to renew the intimacy which
formerly subsisted between them. A reply was re-
quested which was to be directed to Mrs. Smith,
to the care of Mr.,Lasbury, bookseller, Park-street,
Bristol. Mr. Leach wrote to the address given,
intimating some doubt as to the truthfulness of all
the statements of his correspondent, but received a
reply, dated as before, assuring him of the genuine-
ness of the former communication, and proposing
a meeting at Bristol on Sunday, Jan. 31, or, if
that day should prove inconvenient, on the follow-
ing Sunday. Neither of these days happened to
suit Mr. Leach, and having replied to that effect,
he received a third communication from Mrs.
Smith, dated from Bristol, stating that she was
staying with a relation of her late husband at
Wapley, and requesting Mr. Leach to meet her
on the platform of the Bristol station of the
Midland Railway on Wednesday evening. Mr.
Leach accepted the invitation, and came dawn
from Paddington on Wednesday. At a lietle be-
fore 7 o'clock he went on to the platform of the
Midland station, and was almost immediately
joined by Mrs. Smith, who was attired iu the
deep mourning of widowhood. In the course of
the conversation which ensued upon their meet-
ing Mrs. Smith iufermed Mr. Leach that her
husband had been dead about six weeks, and that
she was visiting a relation of his named Isaacs,
who lived at Wapley. While thus engaged, and
waiting the departure of the train, in which Mr.
Leach and Mrs. Smith took tickets for Yate,
Mr. Le icli saw a man on the platform who he
felt satisfied was the husband of his companion.
Mr. Leach mentioned his suspicion to Mrs.
Mrs. Smith, but she reiterated her assertion that
her husband had been dead six weeks. Oa the
stoppage of the train at Yate station Mr. Leach
and Mrs. Smith alighted, and the Rev. S. Smith '
was also seen by a person who knew him
well leaving the platform. When about to leave
the station, Mrs. Smith stated that they were
going across to Yate Common. Mr. Suffolk, the
stationmaster, however, informed them that it
would be impossible for them to make their way
across on so dark a night, and Mr. Leach proposed
that they should take a conveyance, or at any
rate go by the road. Mrs. Smith replied that she
must go by the common, as she knew her way
to Wapley better by that route than by the road,
besides which Mr. Isaacs, she said, had agreed to
come and meet her in the event of Mr. Leach not
arriving. Upon this the stationmaster offered to
conduct them to the common, and procured a
lantern with which he lighted them to the point
from which they would have to cross it. After
leaving them Mrs. Stnieh became the guide, but
not snaking any satisfactory progress, Mr. Leach
proposed that they should retrace their steps and
take the high road. Mrs. Smith, however, said
that she was feeling for the hedge, and that as
soon as she had found it they would be all right.
In a minute or two Mr. Leach heard footsteps, as
of a person tracking them, and he was turning,, round
when Mrs. Smith called to him, saying I have
M
which r.
lost my way-" A man's voice answered,"And I
have lost my way," immediately upon
Leach received a desperate blow across the fore-
head from some heavy sustrument, which was fol-
lowed up by a second across the back of the head.
Both blows inflicted severe wounds, from which
Mr. Leach bled profusely. The man, who he is
satisfied was Mr. Smith, again struck at him, and a
scuffle ensued, in which Mr. Leach, being an agile
man, succeeded in throwing Mr. Smith to the
ground. The struggle was overheard by two work-
men on the Midland Railway named George Heaven
and Charles Owen, who, suspecting that some one
sass
spot,
damaging
y foheruand theilway fences, hastened to th
Rev. S. Smith on the
sp
wherethe t
ground, and Mr. Leach, whose face and clothes
were covered with blood, holding him down
These men pulled Mr. Leach off, and were told.
by
Mr. Smith that he had been violently
being asked to go and assaulted. On
give information to the
police, Mr. Smith said, "Oh he
is a villain, and I'll
have no mgr© to do •hl • u
with m. Mr. Smith and his
wife then went away, when Mr. Leach then gave
his version of the story, and was conveyed to the
Railway Hotel, Yate, where Mr. Lemon, surgeon,
was summoned with all despatch, and attended and
dressed Mr. Leach's wounds, which were so exten-
sive as to require sewing up.
In the meantime the Smiths had crossed the com-
mon and made for the neighbouring village of
Wickwar. On their track were found a widow':
cap and a 6-barrel revolver pistol, loaded and
capped, near the spot where the struggle took place.