The Sun. — 1870-05-21 (London, England)

LISBON STORY.  --- A strangetragecly is announced from Lisbon. SenhorViera I de Castro, formerly Deputy, and an author of some note, has strangled his wife. He found that she was carrying on an underhand correspondence with Senhor Maria de Garrett, who was ponsidured one of his most intimate friends, and in the end she confessed her actual guilt. The husband then half smothered her with chloroform, after which he completed her death by strangulation. De Garrett, to whom he afterwards sent a challenge for a duel et l'outrance, declined to fight him, but intimated that he was willing to lose his life as an expiation for the injury inflicted, aiding that he should pass a certain spot at such an hour. The injured man, however, did not carry his revenge further, but went to the Prefecture of Police and constituted himself prisoner. The other has, it is rumoured, entered a Trappist monastery. The murdered lady was only nineteen.  At the Preston Petty Seasions a j uryman in one of the cases was " caught napping." Mr. Addison the counsel for the defence, said he trusted that those of the jury who had been asleep during the hearing of the case would not endeavour to influence the decision of those who had been awake. -  • The last term before the Long Vacation corn 7 y-mences on Thursday next. The-anticipations respecting business of last term were not fulfilled, and stagnation is loudly complained of throughout the profession. Trinity Term does not promise any improvement; and the Long Vacation will, it is thought, shew no signs of improvement. The Irish Times mentions a report that the LindLieutenancy of Londonderry, now vacant, will be offered to Mr. Baron Martin, who has property in the county to the exteilt b.A:ween 23,000 and X 4,000 a year. The learned judge, who has been for twenty Years on the Bench, expreswd the wish last year to retire from active judicial service.  yv Summonses for amounts due on rates on the property of charitable institution's have been taken out by the Birmingham overseers. The summonses are returnable for Thursday next, but as the second reading of Mr. Muntz's bill exempting charitable institutions from the payment of rates comes on in the House on Wednesday for a second reading, it is probable that the application for distress warrants will not be enforced. Mr. Edmund Yates, in the Western Mail Bay, has the following in reference to the Newspaper Benevolent Fund dinner :—" Your readers will perhaps have observed that no report of the prcieeedings- was given by the Times. That journal has been resolutely, opposed to the Newspaper Benevolent Fund since its institution, and, true to its usual practice, carries out a sorry spite by ignoring the existence of thii charity. Dr. Russell, hewever, thinks differently from his colleaguesonthis subject, and makes a point of attending the anniversary festival." A. diabolical act was committed at Bromley on Thursday. It appears that some person contrived to throw doWn the chimney of a house in Market-street a canister of gunpowder, which immediately on reaching the fire exploded with a loud noise. • The force -of the shock threw the servant girl onthe floor, burnt a portion of her hair off her head, and scorched her severely. Had the outrage been perpetrated a --few minutes . earlier the Comeglicsees NlrOiittlikroba,bly have been more disastrous, as the 'y had been sitting near the fire with an infant on