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

LISBON STORY.  A strange tragedy is announced from Lisbon. SenhorViera 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 considered 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. 1)e Garrett, to whom he afterwards sent a challenge for a duel d l'outrance, declined to fight him, but intima:;ed that he was willing to lose his life as an expiation fur the injury inflicted, adding 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 Se3sions a juryman in oae 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 commences on Thursday next. The anticipations respecting the 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, chew no signs of improvement.  The Irish rimes mentions a report that the LordLieutenancy <,: 1-4z)ndonderry, now vacant, will be offered to Mr. Baron Martin, who has property in the county to the extent of between £3,000 and £t,ooo a year. The learned judge, who has been for twenty years on the Bench, express?d the wish last year to retire from active judicial service.  Summonses for amounts due on rates on the property of charitable institutions 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 Bag, has the following in reference to the Newspaper Benevolent Fund dinner :—" Your readers will perhaps have observed that no report of the proceedings was given by the Timm 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 the charity. Dr. Russell, however, thinks diffelently from his colleagues on this 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 on the floor, burnt a portion of her hair off her head, and scorched her severely. Had the outrage bt.,:n 'perpetrated a few minutes earlier the consecp.• . would probably have been more disastrous, us the laudia.dy had been sitting near the fire with an infant on her lap.