The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-21 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

OW ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
NORTHAMPTON RACES-(THIS DAT).
RACING STAKES.

Mr. Pitt
Ambition
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EARL SPENCER'S PLATE.

Vespasian
Zisca
Goldylock

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Twenty-two ran.
LAMPORT HANDICAP.
Professor Anderson
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FOllr Fall.

ELECTION COMMITTEES—This Day.

The sitting of the election committees was re,
sumed this morning. In only one had a result been
arrived at.

BOSTON.

The counsel for the petitioner proceeded to ob-
ject to several voters, and having struck off enough
to place him in a majority of two over Mr Parry,
Mr. Brandt, on behalf of the sitting member,
produced evidence for the purpose of striking off
certain of Mr. Staniland's voters on the ground that
they were beyond the legal distance of the borough..
It soon appeared that the evidence was weak on the
point, and ultimately he retired from the case.
After having explained the motive of Mr. Power in
defending his seat,
All charge of bribery was withdrawn.
The Ir

•on-Cased Turret-ships Bellona and
Minerva.

Messrs. Laird Brothers have just completed an-
other iron-cased turret-ship for sea-going and coast
defences, named the Bellona. She is 1,340 tons
and 300 horse-power. She is fully protected by
armour plates 4f inches thick, tapering slightly at
the ends, is fitted with drouble screws, and rigged as
a barque. The turrets are on the principle of Cap-,
tain Cowper Coles, and are the same as those on.
board H.M. ships Scorpion and Wyvern, the Runs-
car, Peruvian armour-cased turret-ship, and the,
Minerva, constructed by the same builders. EarA
turret is covered with 4i-inch armour plates, except
opposite the ports, where it is 7 inches thick ; and
will carry four 150=pounder Whitworth rifle guns,
two in each turret. The Bellona went out for a
trial trip on the 22d February, being fully com-
pleted for sea (except guns, ammunition, and sea,
stores), and had on board 120 tons of coal, draug:at
of water being about 11 feet mean. The speed
obtained at the measured mile was a mean of 11.23
knots, under the unfavourable circumstances of a
stormy day and cross sea. In smooth water no
doubt a speed of 12 knots would have been obtained.
The turning and manoeuvring powers were tested
with very satisfactory results, showing that, with
the assistance of the screws working independently,
one ahead and the other astern, the vessel could be
turned in a circle but very little more than her own
length.

After taking on board about 200 tons of additional
coal and stores, the Bellona left Liverpool for her
destination, and made the run from Formby Light,
ship to Holyhead, a distance of about 60 nautical
miles, in five hours and a half ; the captain reporting
that, in a strong beam wind and heavy sea, the
vessel had shown herself all that could be desired.
After landing her pilot at Holyhead, the Bellona
prooeeded on her voyage, and has since arrived at
Madeira in six days from Liverpool.
We are also informed that the Minerva, a double
screw turret-ship of 1,000 tons, and 140-horse power,
built and engined by Messrs. Laird, which obtained
a speed, at the measured mile, of ten and a half
knots, made the passage from Liverpool to Rio de
Janeiro in 30 days, including all stoppages, which
gives a speed of nearly 9 knots per hour ; and al-
though only drawing 8 feet of water, proved herself
during the voyage an excellent sea-boat, unier all
circumstances.

The performance of these vessels at their trials,
and at sea, prove the advantages to be dcrived•froni
the application of the double screw system to turret-
ships of light draft of water.

Messrs. Laird Brothers have other double screw
vessels in hand at the works at -Birkenhead, one
being an armour-clad turret-vessel of more than
2,000 tons, specially designed by them for sea-going,
with engines of 400 horse-power, to carry four
12+-ton guns, which, from her speed and heavy
armament, will prove a most formidable ship of war.
—Liverpool Albion.

INSTALLATION OF PRINCE ALFRED AS MASTER OF
Tun TRINITY HOUSE.—This morning his Royal Highness
Prince Alfred, who had been elected to this office, vacant
by the death of Viscount Palmerston, took the customary
oaths on taking office, at the House, .Tower-hill. Tho
whole proceeding occupied but a few minutes, and was
followed by a cold collation, at which there were no

speeches.
MR. GUSTAVUS V. BROOKE.—A bottle found on
the beach at Brighton a few days since was found
to contain a sad message from Mr. G. V. Brooke, the actor,
to his wife, better known as Miss Avonia Jones. The

bottle was discovered by Mr. C. A. Elliott, of Trinity Col-.
loge, Cambridge. The message is written in pencil on a
torn envelope, and reads as follows :—" 11th of January,
on board the London. We are just going down. No
chance of safety. Please give this to Avonia Jones, Surrey
Theatre.—GusTAvus VAUGRA.N BROOKE."

THE CATTLE &AGUE.—DAY OF HUMILIATION.—
Yesterday being the day appointed by the Bishop of Lon-
don for humiliation on account of the cattle plague there
was Divine service in all the churches in his diocese north
of the Thames. At Westminster Abbey there were two
services. At the morning service the sermon was preached
by Dr. Stanley, tho Doan of Westminster, before a very
large congregation.

ANOTHER CAB ACCIDENT AT THE HOUSES OF
PARLIAMENT.— On Saturday evening as Mr. John Lloyd was
crossing from the House of Lords to proceed to the West-
minster School he was 'knocked down by a cab, and so
severely injured that he was taken in a state of insensi-
bility to Westminster hospital, where, though everything
was done that medical aid could devise, the unfortunate
sufferer expired at six o'clock this morning. He was in-
sensible from the first. Mr. Lloyd was well known to
" Westminsters," both old and young, as " College John,',
by all of whom he was much respected.
ELECTION PETITIONS.—The election committeee
got to work yesterday and began inquiries into the peti-
tions respecting Boston, Bridgnorth, Nottingham, Totness,s
and Yarmouth. In the Nottingham case therelifatreencwreas
petitions. That of Mr. Paget against Sir R. Clifton Cof counsel
first proceeded with. The opening statieemn
intimi-
dation had been used to insure the reeteurrutiny.
was to the effect that the most lawless violencen
Mr. Parry
The Boston case is resolved intooaver of esceiraßnd.
Clifton.
Mr. Staniland ; of
had a majority of twelve votes
gic
dolfm
reldnit theet committee
guar.gd
enough
considered
the
CHILD ni
ad-
journed.
THE CHARGE OForsE._
"ladyAt stulipeeirnineetetinndent," and other
were
oi,A 10ctieGis-bt
clewfuoaTr
was
re examined,
witnesses
proved,were
even by Mrs. Sansom herself, to warrant
had been •
dSiTa.ul's AlcMres". Ss alnV:rtrli.
their confidence from her;
d thatl the inquiry be
it was resolved . adjourned; that
and
the investigation she be suspended, that the
pending
master be requested to make arrangements to supply her
Iplace temporarily, and that in the interim the resident
that board in withdrawing
medical officer be requested to take charge of all mid-
wifery cases.

TIIACKERAY AND LEECH AS CARTHUSIANS.—T"
tablets in memory respectively of W. M. Thackeray and
John Leech have
hd sidet by side in the corridorl
leading to the chapel ofn PllieacCe
stone-tablets let into the wall a rander Charter-house. ou. s
Le .
inscriptions,tinTlieyaroain
Of which the following may' be giveneal a,: translations :
" To William Makepeace Thackeray, a Carthusian ; Car-
thusians have had this monument erected. He was born
1811, died 1863, was a scholar 1822 to 1827." "To John
I Leech, a Carthusian; Carthusians have had this monument
erected. He was born 1817, died 1864, was a scholar 1825
to 1832." The Art Journal for [arch.
GAROTTERS AND THE LASH.—Mr. Justice Lush
will be remembered by the Manchester garotters.
In charging the grand jury at the opening of the assizes,
the learned judge expressed his determination to award
the severest punishment the law permitted to those who
should be convicted before him of "robbery with violence."
Twenty prisoners, men and women, who had been found
guilty of such offences, were on Monday brought up for
sentence, and, with one exception, all the male prisoners
wore ordered to be flogged and kept to penal servitude.
With the prospect of the lash before them, the • • majonty of
the prisoners, says the report, " exhibited a degree of
bravado which is only to be found in old offends;
of them shouted aloud to their friends, announcingoffenders;
many
their
sentence, and two threw their caps '
among the audience.,,
—Manchester Gmrdian,