The Sun. — 1870-06-16 (London, England)

EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL.---A remarkable trial is about to take place in Hungary, which, it it believed, will be one of the most extensive on record in modern times. No less than three hundred prisoners are to be tried, all of them brigands, and it is thought that most probably two-thirds of them will be put to death.  The Marchioness of Queensberry has sent another cheque for £2O to the editor of the Irishman, for the relief of the wife of a Fenian prisoner, and in a letter accompanying the bequest expresses a wish to see the union of all Irishmen for the attainment of self-government by peaceful means.  Lady Margaret Brooke, wife of Sir William Brooke O'Shaughnessy, Knight, M.D. F.8,.5., the eminent telegraphist, and late Superintendent-General of Telegraphs in India, died on Sunday. Her ladyship, who was the daughter of Francis O'Shaughnessy, Esq., of Curragh, county Clare, was born in 1807. In lieu of the prohibited Christchurch Ball, arrangements have been made for an Eton and Harrow Ball, to take place at Oxford in the Commemoration week, namely, on Tuesday, June 21. The Public Schools Ball will be in addition to those of the University, masonic, and college balls.  The Attorney-General for Ireland has decided the question as to whether there should be a new theatre in Dublin. He considered a patent ought to be granted under certain conditions, respecting prices of admission, accommodation, ventilation, &c., and said he would so report to the Lord Lieutenant.  The Eastern Budget understands that the new Austro-Hungarian Minister of Finance, M. de Lonyay, has determined, with the concurrence of the Minister for War, to make considerable reductions in the forthcoming Austro-Hungarian military. budget. The total expenses caused by the Dalmatian insurrection amount to about 3,000,000 florins (2300,000).  .Rebecca Lady Egeston died on the 11th inst., at the great age of 90 years. The venerable lady was the daughter of Mr. Josias Du Pre, of Wilton Park, Bucks, by Rebecca, sister of the first Earl of Caledon. She married 14th September, 1804, the Rev. Sir Philip Egerton, of Oulton, and by him had issue a numerous family, including the present baronet, Sir Philip De MalpaP Grey Egerton, M.P.  The following circuits of the judges have been fixed :—Western (Mr. Baron Martin and Mr. Justice Willes.)—Winchester, Wednesday, July 13; Salisbury, Tuesday, July 19; Dorchester, Friday, July 22; Exeter, Tuesday, July 26 ; Bodmin, Monday, August 1; Wells, Friday, August 5;• Bristol, Wednesday, August 10. Home (Lord Chief Justice Bovill and Mr. Justice Blackburn)—Guildford, Monday, August 8.  Slight rain is reported to have fallen at some stations, and in the western district the sky continues cloudy. Temperature materially altered during yesterday. In London, at six o'clock in the morning, the thermometer registered 65 degs., but at noon it had risen to 86 degs. in the shade. Readings at other stations are also reported to have become higher. The wind is still very light and variable, principally from the south-westward. The sea is calm.  At an adjourned inquest held by Mr. Humphreys on the body of Isabella, Hugon, aged 25 years, a married woman, who was an actress at the Alhambra Theatre, in Shoreditch, and who died recently after having prematurely given birth to a child, the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person unknown. Mr. William Harding, a retired medical practitioner, has been arrested by the police, and remanded on the charge of having caused the death of the deceased. -  The shooting for the National Rifle Association Bronze Medal for Middlesex has commenced at Wormwood Scrubbs, by the selected representative marksmen of the Rifle Voltutteer Corps of the county. In addition to the bronze medal there are twenty-eight prizes in money, in sums ranging from £1 to £lO, th 6 highest aggregate score at the 200, 500, and GOO yards, taking the bronze medal and £10; the second £7 • the third £6 ; the fourth and fifth, each £5 ; the sixth £4 ; the seventh and eighth, each £3.