The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-28 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY•

WINDSOR CASTLE, March 27.
The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon with
her Royal Highness Princess Louise.

Her Royal Highness Princess Helena, attended
by Lady Susan Melville, also took a drive.

Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal lligh-
ness Princess Louise and her Grand Ducal High-
ness the Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenbourg, drove
out in a carriage and four this morning.

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Their Royal Hignesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, Prince Teake, Lord Newory, Major Keppel, the
Hon. Mrs. Stoner and suite, honoured the performances at
the New Adelphi Theatre last evening.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales will leave Marlborough House on Tuesday next
for Sandringham.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and Princess Mary left their residence in St. James's
Palace yesterday for Cambridge Cottage, Kew, where it is
the intention of their Royal Highnesses to pass the Easter
holidays.

The Dowager Duchess of Sutherland has im-
proved in health of late. The anxiety of her friends has
been greatly relieved by the improvement which has taken
place.

The Earl and Countess of Percy, who have been
on a visit to the Duke of Northumberland at Torquay, are
expected to arrive in town to-day on their way to Albury
Park, Surrey.

The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and Lady
Emily Villiers left town yesterday for The Grove, near
Watford, Herts.

The Right Hon. B. Ijisraeli, M.P., and Mrs.
Disraeli have left Grosvenor-gate for Hughenden Manor,
Bucks.

A marriage is arranged, and will shortly take
place, between the Hon. Hamilton Haldane Duncan,
brother of the present Earl of Camperdown, and grandson
of Admiral (first viscount) Duncan, and Miss Mercer Hen-
derson, youngest daughter of the late Gen. Mercer Hen-
derson, and sister of Mr. George Mercer Henderson, of
Fordell, Fifeshiro, N.B.

We have to record the death of the Hon. Lady
Trench, who died at Nico on the 25th instant, at the ad-
vanced age of 81. The deceased lady was the youngest of
the two daughters of Robert, first Lord Clonbrock, and
was born 28th Sept 1784. She married, Nov. 21, 1805,
the Hon. Sir Robert Le Poer Trench, K.C.8., by whom she
has a family of daughters. Her husband died in March,
1824. The deceased lady was connected by birth and mar-
riage to some of the best families in Ireland.

THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY AND GOOD
FRIDAY.—At the monthly (March) meeting of the
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Archdeacon
Sinclair, who was in the chair, was requested to forward a
memorial to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the desecra-
tion of Good Friday. The Primate has sent the following
reply ;—" My dear Mr. Archdeacon,—l have long observed
with feelings of deep concern the growing disregard of that
sacred day on which we commemorate the great sacrifice of
the Cross, and should humble ourselves in penitence before
God for the sins which caused it to be offered. To turn such
a day into a season of festivity and reereation is to dishon-
our Him who so loved the world that He gave His life a
ransom for it; and I would fain hope that reflection will lead
many who call themselves Christians, and who would be
unwilling to renounce their hopes as Christians, to feel
how grievous a slight they thus put on Him who pur-
chased the redemption of the world at so great a price.
entirely concur in the tenuor of the address which, as
chairman of the meeting of the Society for Promoting
Christian Knowledge, you have presented to me, and you
are at liberty to make known this expression of my great.
sorrow at the frequent desecration of Good Friday, and
my earnest desire that all the members of the Christian
community should observe that day with such feelings of
reverence and devotion as the remembrance of the
Saviour's Cross and Passion ought to inspire. Believe me,
my dear Mr. Archdeacon, very sincerely yours, C. T.
CANTI:AIt.'

NEW AP P o NTM ENTS. —We understand that Mr.
George John Shaw Lefevro, M.P. for Reading, has ac-
cepted the post of Civil Lord of the Admiralty. Mr.
linatchbull-Hugessen, M.P. for Sandwich, Junior Lord of
the Treasury, is to be Under Secretary for the Home De-
partment, vice the Hon. T. G. Baring, who will succeed
Lord Clarence Paget as Secretary to the Admiralty.
DEATH OF A MR. T. THORNTON.—The death is
announced of Mr. Thomas Thornton, who was for 40 years
connected with the Parliamentary staff of the Times. Ile
was rarely absent from his duty—that of preparing the
summary of the debate in the House of Commons. Ile
was in the habit of attending the house at 4 o'clock, when
the Speaker took the chair, and never left until the house
rose, involving in many cases a sittin of nine or ten hours.
He retired from Parliamentary duties at the close of last
session.

DAMAGES FOR INJURY ON A RAILWAY.—The Rev.
David Dunlop, a licentiate of the Irish Presbyterian
Church, and described as editor and part proprietor of the
Banner of Ulster, has obtained a verdict in the Jury Court,
at Edinburgh, with £1,500 damages, against the Scottish
North-Eastern Railway Company. The pursuer was,
the let of September, 1864, travelling from Aberdeen to
Glasgow with a third-class ticket, and in approaching the
General Station at Perth the train came into collision with
another from Inverness, and he sustained severe bodily
injuries, which for a time laid him aside from work, and to
some extent permanently impaired his constitution. The
collision was proved to have occurred through the fault of
the company's servants, and a tender had been made Of
£1,050. The damages claimed in the issue were £6,600,
and the Lord-Advocate, at the trial, asked the jury for et
least a sum which would yield the pursuer £920 a-year,
with £l,OOO for solatium, and £l6O for medical expenses.
After a speech in defence from the Solicitor-General, who
asked for a candid consideration of the pursuer's injury
and loss, which ho had greatly exaggerated, and a charge
from Lord Barcaple, who said it was not so aggravated 0.
case of fault as to require exemplary or inflamed damages,
the jury awarded the sum above stated—.£l,soo.
EXECUTION AT EXETER.—The execution of the
murderess Mary Ashford took place to-day in front of the
gaol at Exeter. The convict, it will be recollected, was
tried and found guilty of poisoning her husband, a shoe-
maker, who had discovered the existence of an improper
intimacy between her and another person.
EXECUTION AT STAFFORD.—George Bentley, who
on the afternoon of the Bth of Janua'ry last murdered John
Poole at Offiey Brook, about three miles from Eccleshall,
in North Staffordshire, was executed at Stafford yesterdaY.
He fully acknowledged the justness of the sentence that
had been awarded. The executioner was a cattle dealer, of
Dudley, named Smith. When on the scaffold, and imme"
diately before the adjusting of the rope, the culprit Was
heard to say, " Lord Jesus receive my spirit." Shortly
afterwards the drop fell, and death took place almost in"
stantaneously.
THE BRIGHTON MURDERER.—The execution of
John W. Leigh, whose trial and condemnation took
place at the Sussex Lent Assizes on Thursday last, has
been fixed by the high sheriff, Mr. Hankey, to take place
at Lewes on Tuesday, April 10. It is not expected that
any reprieve will be obtained. Since his trial Leigh has
conducted himself in an orderly manner, and his conduct
on the whole leads those in a position to form an opinion
to believe that he is not so indifferent to his fate as, fret'''.
the careless and apparently unfeeling nature of his outward
behaviour, is generally supposed. He receives the atten-
tions of the authorities and of the chaplain with becoming
respect. He has had several visitors prior to and since his
condemnation, including his mother and his wife.—Sus`ex
Advertiser.
SHOCKING DEATH FROM SCALDlNG.—YesterditY,,
John Clements, about 22 years of age, in the employ c";
Mr. Townsend, bone boiler, Hatcham- road, Old Kent-rel
lost his life under the following circumstances. It appears
that yesterday morning the deceased was reaching 00l r
large copper, said to contain above 500 gallons of Wil
liquid, from which a quantity of bones and grease had jne
been extracted, when by some means he lost his balancs,
and fell in. Mrs. Townsend, the wife of the proprietor 0,1
the place, who was near at hand, hearing a noise, lockets
up and saw the deceased in the act of falling
copper. She caught hold of his clothes, and succeeded 1
drawing him out, severely scalding her hands in doing ec'ci
The deceased, who was frightfully scalded, was wrapped
in blankets and taken by Edward Maynard, the foreman'
to St. Thomas's Hospital, where, after lingering scneo,,
hours, death put an end to his sufferings. The deceasi c6l.
who was much respected, leaves a wife daily expecting 1 r
confinement.
CONVICTION FOR ARSON.--At the assizes in Ira.%
ford R. Atkinson was indicted for setting fire .b"'
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into t
house in that city. Early cue morning in Decenibe 'P._
prisoner raised an alarm of fire, and on the arrival o
from
the they found that the flames and smoke arose :1)1,
the combustion of certain casks and boxes in the cellar
the house. An examination convinced the police
tendent that the fire was premeditated, as firewood, chaps'&c., were found carefully placed and smeared over w
paraffin oil, tallow, and other combustible material•
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£l,OOO, but did not succeed, as it was not cons
prisoner had in September sought to insure his
worth more than £2OO. He subsequently managed to
it insured for £lOO and £lOO for fixtures. After heart
the evidence for the prosecution and defence, thee jurY r'c'd
turned a verdict of guilty, and the rrisoner was tenc
to penal servitude for seven years. esrtetoibl: