The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-20 00:00:00

MURDEROUS OUTRAGE

On Friday evening some persons passing Bear-alley,
Farringdon-street, heard a cry of murder issuing from a
house in the aley, and on going to No. 4, whence the
found proceeded, they met a woman, almost covered with
blood, running out of the house. She-had not gone many
paces before she fell to the ground from exhaustion. Her
husband, whose name is Murphy, a tall, powerful man, ran
after her, and was dragging her back, when two constables
with great difficulty succeeded in freeing the woman from
his grasp, and she was at once taken to St. Bartholomew's
Hospital, suffering from several severe scalp wounds,
which had to be stitched up. Murphy, who is a porter,
was taken to the police-station in Smithfield, and on being
zliarged with the offence said that he did it in self-defence ;
that when he got home to tea his wife was drunk, and run-
ning at him attempted to stab him with a carving knife, and
that he struck her in self-defence. A girl,who says that she saw
all that occur red through the window, states that the prisoner
struck his wife first with a table, and felled her to the
floor. He then took a chair, with which he beat her till
it was broken into several ',lmes. . The poor woman tried
to escape by the window, but he stopped her ; she then in
tier fright ran to the, door and escaped into the street,
where she was discovered by the passers by. It is stated
that both of the parties were sober, the wounded woman
when she arrived, at the hospital, and the Lu.shand when
taken to the stat:cii-Imi,e.

Her Majesty the Queen held a Privy Council at
Windsor yesterday afternoon.

The Consecration of the. Bishop of Hereford is ap-
pointed to take place at 10 a.m. on Wednesday next, in West-
minster Abbey. His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury
will be as:sieted on the occasion by the Bishops of London;
Rochester, and Gloucester and Bristol.
Two of the men who made a raid on the house of
Mr. O'Connell, near Tralee, and fired at the woman-ser-
vant, have been arrested and fully identified. Their names
are John Stevens and Edward Bally. The former is a shop
porter; his accompl:ce is a labourer. When captured they
carried arms.

The following is the result of the Trinity College
(Cambridge) examinations : - Greek Testament I'rizemen--
W. 11. Anderson, Armitage, Lees, Meera, Warr, Arch-
deacon; De:.ltr3 Pr:zernan—Leeds. Junior Sophs: Greek
Testament Prizenuort—rirks, Greenwood, Marne, South,
J. M. Thomson, Arebdt aeon ; Dealtry's Prizeman— J. M.
Thompson.

On Tuesday Mr. Baines will a'k the Chancellor of
the Exchequer whether the Government have come to a de-
cision as to the exemption of schools and charities from the
recently declared liability to the payment of poor rates, on
which subject the present and the late Governments have
received important representations, and to which they have
DrOmised attention.

The Town Chrk of Leeds has written to 'the Home
Secretary, suggesting an amendment ou the Registration
Bill, to the effect that the number of votes permitted to be
pored in one booth be raised from 300 to 800, instead of to
only 500 as at present proposed. It is shown that in con-
sequence of the grant increase of the constituent body in
Leeds under the new Reform Act about 70 booths would be
required in that borough if 500 votes only be polled in each.
The object of his proposal is to save expense.

SUICIDE OF A. MISER.—An inquest has been held
at Birmingham on the body of a man named Tovey, who,
it appeared, had committed suicide while in au unsound
state of mind. His method of living led to the inference
that ho was in abject poverty, but on a search being made
no less than £427 9s. Gd. in deposit receipts were in the
house, also a bank book with credit for £2O in it,
five shares in the Old Union Mill Company, and two
watches.

On Friday morning a large gathering of clergy
and laity, including many personal friends of the Rev.
Dr. John Atlay, vicar of Leeds, attended divine service
at the church of St. Mary-le•Bow, Cheapside, to witness
the confirmation of the election by the Dean and Chapter
of Hereford of the rev. gentleman to the bishopric of
Hereford, rendered vacant by the death of the Right Rev.
Dr. Renn Dickson Hampden.

A serious explosion of gas occurred at the Theatre
Royal, Preston, the other evening. The stage foot-lights
are supplied with oxy-hydrogen, and this mixture of
gases is kept in bags provided specially for the purpose or,
one side of the stage. Just previous to the commencement
of the performance a man named Catterall and some others
were engaged in preparing for the ignition of the foot-
lights by arranging the gas-bags, &c., when one of them
sitthlenly exploded. Catterall was blown some distance ;
his clothes were torn in several places, and he was con-
s:derably shaken and cut about the chin and face.

THE WHECK OF THE GAIIONNE.—The inquiry was
concluded ou Thurs.lay afternoon, when it was declared
teat the owners were exonerated from all blare'. The ship
was lost because Captain Drew had not made a sufficient
allowance for the set of the tide to the eastward, and not
having slackened spud and put the ship's head to sea •
ward, When he must have known, if he bad reflected,
that the ship had run her distance and was al-preaching a
dangerous pos:tion, in a dark night and thick weather. The
captain was not sufficiently collected to give distinct orders,
and abandoned himself to despair. The second mate
rendered tflicieLt service towards saving tie pasisen-
gers. Th 3 men. in the lifeboat deserve credit, and the
men in the pinnance are not blameworthy. It was repre-
hensible that the dingay was witheut a plug, oars, or rudder,
aud partly full of peas, otherwise it would probably have
raved lives. The master and first mato could Um laved
their lives if they La'l chosen to get into the boat, It wa •
rmommended that cork jackets should be kept ha
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