The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-22 00:00:00

NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.

The following appointments were made at the Admiralty
this afternoon :

Lieutenant Frederick A. Wetherell for Excellent to the
Royal Oak ; Mr. George R. Green, sub-lieutenant, to the
Royal Oak; Lieutenant John W. Sunderland, to the
Pallas ; Lieutenant Frederick C. N. Hall, to the Serapis ;
Lieutenant Robert N. Helmond, to the Mersey.

SENDING THI?EATENING LE2TERS.'

The following appeared in our latest edition of pester-

dap :

Yesterday afternoon Elizabeth Darling, lately a do-
mestic in the service of Mr. Burgess, the wholesale
oil and pickle merchant, 107, Strand, was placed
before Mr. Flower, at the Bow-street Police-court,
charged on suspicion with writing and sending a
number of threatening letters to her employer. Mrs.
Burgess stated that for some time past the greatest
uneasiness had prevailed throughout the establish-
meat in consequence of letters of a most alarming de-
scription, some of them threatening the burning of
the house and injury to life, being found in different
parts of the house. Mr. Hunt, the Superintendent
of St. Martin's division of special constables, be-
coming aware of the circumstance, a number
of men were employed to watch the pre-
mises night and day. From certain suspicious
circumstances the prisoner's movements were
watched, and at length she was questioned on cer-
tain statements she had made to Mrs. Burgess, -all
of which turned out a tissue of falsehoods. She was
then accused of writing the letters, and another
domestic servant then stated some other matters
connected with the finding of the threatening
communications that led to such a strong suspi-
cion against the girl Darling that she was given in
cuscody. A witness proved the similarity of the
prisoner's handwriting to the letters in question,
but she most solemnly protested that she was not
the person who wrote them, but she confessed to
having told many falsehoods to her mistress. Mr.
Flower remanded the prisoner for a week in order
that her friends might be communicated with.

A DANGEROUS PRACTICE.—At the Liverpool Police..
Jourt, yesterday, Henry Hallington, quartermaster on
board the African mail steamer Calabar, was charged,
under the 239th section of the Merchant Shipping
Act, with having smuggled a quantity of lucifer
matches on board that vessel. The owners of the
Calabar were bound, under contract with the Govern-
ment, not to carry anything which would endanger
the safety of the mails. They did, however, carry
gunpowder, but for this purpose, the ships were fitted
up with magazines similar to a war ship. The matches
in question were discovered in the forecastle, within a
few inches of 40,0001 b of gunpowder. It is supposed
that the very high prices seamen obtain for matches
on the coast induced the prisoner to commit this
offence. He denied having taken the matches on
board ; the contrary, however, was proved, and ho
was sentenced to four mon, hs' imprisonment.
PRESBYTERIANISM IN SCOTLAND.—Mr. Moncreiff,
M. P., delivered a lecture to the Edinburgh Young
Men's Christian Association on Monday night, in
which he pointed out the general characteristics of
the Presbyterian party in Scotland during the
struggles for the independence of the people m the
seventeenth century, and maintained that the
Presbyterian party were not justly liable to
many imputations which had been brought
against them, and that the germs of our
civil liberties were to be found to a large extent
in the struggles of that party in Scotland in the six■
teenth and seventeenth centuries. He also defended
the Scotch Covenanters and Presbyterians from the
charge of intolerance, contending that their conduct
contrasted favourably with that of any other party in
power at that period. Mr. Moncreiff received a cordial
vote of thanks for his lecture from the association.
THE LORD LIEUTENANCY OF CHESTHRE. —The re-
signation by the Marquess of Westminster, K.G., of
the high office of Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire, is an
event which will come with a painful feeling of regret
on the public mind. The same high sense of duty
which has actuated the noble Marquess throughout the
long period of his tenure of office, induces him to ask
to be relieved from its cares, when he feels, though
no one else has perceived any indication of the
fact, that advancing age may by and by make
jt impossible for him to continue at the head of
the county administration with the same advan-
tage to the public service for which his Lord
Lieutenancy has hitherto-been distinguished. While
sensible that Lord Westminster's loss cannot be easily,
if indeed at all adequately in all points replaced, we
cannot allow our regret for the fact to outweigh the
cinsideration that no public man has better earned a
• title to honourable repose. Rumour already points as
the probable new Lord Lieutenant to a nobleman
whose large stake in the county, coupled with his
high reputation and business habits, would make his
selection a very popular one to fill the vacancy so much
regretted. —Chester Courant.
THE CASE OF MATILDA GRIGGS. —Mr. Ruskin, in
enclosing a cheque for £4O to the editor of a con-
temporary, for the purpose of procuring Matilda
Griggs's release from custody, says .—"Except in
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It is expected that the young
woman will be discharged
from custody by the registrar of the Chelmsford
County Court this day.
A FATAL LEAP.--resterd4 morning t fatal acci-
dent happ-med at the Shrub-hill Railway Station, at
Worcester, through a passenger alighting from a train
when in motion. It appears that on the previous
afternoon a special train left Glocester fur Birming-
ham, calling at Worcester and other intervening
stations, taking passengers to Birmingham for the
pAntoinime, and returning next morning. The train
was a heavy one of between twenty and thirty carriages,
and on reaching Worcester was stopping at Shrub-hill
Station, when a carpenter named Steed, residing at
:Nlcrryvale, in that city, imprudently opened the door
of the carriage in which he was riding, and jumped
out before the train had come to a stand-still. The
result was that he was twisted round and fell back
upon the line, the wheels of the carriages passing over
his legs and inflicting fearful injuries on other parts of
his person. On the train coming to a stop he was
extricated in a fearfully mangled state, and, a stretcher
having been procured, was carried at once to the Wor-
cester Infirmary insensible and apparently in a dying
state. In fact he only lived three or four hours, when
death put an end to his sufferings. The accident occa-
sioned the greatest consternation among the pas-
sengers.
DEATH OF DUFFY, THE FENIAN, IN MILLBANK
Puisos.—Yesterday afternoon a coroner's inquest was held
by Mr. Charles St. Clair Bedford respecting the death of
Edward Duffy (formerly a diaper in Dublin), in the Peni,
tentiary, Milbank. The surgeon said death was caused by
pleurisy 'on both sides and inflammation of both lung.
The jury returned a verdict of Natural Death.