The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-13 00:00:00

THIRD EDITION

SUN OFFICE, SIX O'CLOCK.

TURKEY.

Constantinople journals to the 4th have arrived.'
Letters state that 100,000 men of the reserve have!
been called under arms, and the greater number or.
them will be sent o❑ the Danube. For the first;
time, two Christians, one a Greek and the other au.
Armenian, have been named members of the Grand,
Council of Justice. A change of Ministers
spoken of.

The Poor-Law Board and Bethnal-green,

OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION.

Yesterday Mr. Lambert, inspector under the Poor Ls
Board, resumed, at the Bethnal-green Workhouse, the offi..,
cial inquiry into the charges preferred by the board of guar
diens against Dr. Moore, medical officer of the district.
'Mr. H. Giffard, instructed by Mr. Tullet Howard, ap•
peared for the board of guardians, and Mr. Sleigh, in-
structed by Mr. W. Ven, appeared on behalf of
,Dr.
Moore.
The first charge taken to-day was that of making exces.
sive charges for " vaccination fees."
Mr. J. Wright, relieving officer at the Stepney Union,
was called, and examined by Mr. Giffard—He said that itib
the year 1861 he was assisting relieving officer in Beth••
nal-green—and during the last month he was in the situa4
tion he was employed to visit all the houses where cases of
vaccination had been reported by all the medical officers.
He made a list from the medical books, and he called at the
houses, and made inquiries.

Mr. Sleigh asked that the list should be put in, but it -waz
found not to be in existence.
Witness said that he went to some houses, he could not
say how many, and found no vaccination cases there.
Mr. Sleigh said that he was not quite done with the chargo
of " unnecessary inquests" yet. He had more witnesses tat
call.

Mr. John Gay, senior surgeon to the Great Ncrtherrsi
Hospital, was called, and deposed that at the request of Mr.
Humphreys, the county coroner, he made a post mortent
examination of the body of a child named Da Costa, in
Hollybush-garden. The inference he drew was that the
child had died from imperfect aeration of the blood during:
ordinary conyalescene from scarlet fever. The premise:s
were apparently the cause of the illness of that and other
persons. The ground was saturated with filth, the air
stank, and the rooms were dilapidated and unwhitewash-zd.
The death of dec,ased was analogous to that of a per son
who died in a room full of carbonic acid. The air was
so
impure that the child could not throw off the vitiation of
the blood, which was the proximate cause of death. The
blood could not be ,xygenated. There wet e two other chil-
dren dying, apparently from the same cause, and he ordered
their immediate removal, as the only chance of saving their
lives. There was a quantity of non-vital gases in the at -
mosphere, which would vitiate or poison the blood. The
place was certainly not fit for human habitation. The, filthy
state of the air would produce scarlet fever.

Cross-examined by Mr. Giffard—Scarlet fever was sup-
posed to be a specific poison in the blood, as was typhus
fever. The air was in such a state that the blood could not
be purged of the poison. It could not LK) carbonised. The
first stage of scarlet fever was over in. this case, and the
child ought to have recovered—but it was impossible fcr
it to have recovered in such an atmosphere. He believed
the child that was removed to the hospital recovered, though
it was quite as bad,
Re-examined—Witness found no one organ of the body
in a diseased state that would account for death.
Mr, John Humphrey, coroner for Middlesex, was recalled.
He said that an inquest had been held on Eliza Branscombe
(who had been attended by Dr. Moore) by his order. He
had directed the inquest to be held in consequence of a
written report from his own officer. The verdict was—

" Death from accidental violence," and the inquest was
certainly necessary.

Some hours were consumed in taking further evidence,
but the proceedings were not of an important character.
The inquiry was again adjourned.

Dreadful Railway Accident.

F GOTHLAND, Thursday.—The long incline of the Malton
and Whitby branch of the North-Eastern Railway was the
scene of an unparalleled accident between 9 and 10 o'clock
last night. The last passenger train from Mahon, consist-
ing of two third-class carriages, one second-class and one
first-class carriage, with the van, travelled safely as far as
the bank top in Gothland. Here the engine was detached,
and the train, as is usual, was hooked on to a brake van, to
which a rope of wire is attached, and was pushed over the
bank on to the incline in the usual way. The trains are
lowered by a stationary engine at the top, and last night all
was considered to be in proper working order. When pro-
bably about 150 yards on the descent the rope suddenly
broke, and the train was left to its career down nearly kmile
of incline of which the gradient is lin 14. The velocity
likely to be attained under such circumstances may bemore
readily imagined than described, especially when the rails
were frozen and slippery, which rendered the two brakes of
the vans comparatively useless. At the foot of the incline
the line curves rapidly to the right, crossing the Elderbeck
in the Beck Hole. Round this curve and over the bridge
the train shot with terrific speed, and a few yards further
left the rails and rolled over into the ditch. The first-class
oarriage was quite upset, and out of one compartment two
commercial travellers were taken out dead. Strangely
enough they bear no marks of injury beyond a slight black-
ness on one eye of one of the deceased. Up to the time of
writing the names of the killed are not known, but it is be-
lieved they are Scotchmen from Dundee. In the next
compartment of the first-class another commercial gen-
tleman, a Mr. Nichols, also from the north, was got
out somewhat seriously injured about the head. The
confusion in the dark was extreme, but eventually all the
other passengers were extricated, when it was fou!id
that
although 14 were more or less injured, their injuries
were slight. The engine which was waiting for the train
at the foot, had steam up, and was at once sent to
Whitby for new carriages and assistance. The whole of
the passengers, and the bodies of the gentlemen killed
were taken there, where the coroner will hold an inquest, it
is believed, this afternoon. Similar accidents have previ -
ously occurred on this line, but never previously with
passenger train. The company's chief engineer, Mr. Cabry,
arrived this morning, and will cause a searching inquiry tA,
be made. A farce from York has rendered the line passable
again, but passengers all manifest a desire to walk the in-
cline part of the journey. The danger which it has long
bean admitted attended long inclines worked by ropes led
the North-Eastern Company to obtain a Deviation Act, and
the new line is fast approaching completion, when the old
line, forming the scene of the present disaster, will be finally
abandoned.

THE CONDEMNED PIRATES.--The execution of
the seven men now under sentence of death will, we believe,
take place at the Old Bailey. The matter is one in which
the Home Secretary has not the power to interfere, The
criminals are left for execution with the Sheriff of London,
who has the sole control of carrying out the sentence.
HAYTI AND LIBERIA.--011 the 14th ult. a Treaty
of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation was signed
by Mr. Dubois, the Minister for Hayti, and Mr. Ralston,
Consul-General for Liberia, on behalf of their respective
Negro Republicans. Much advantage is
anticipated from
this treaty to the social, political, and commercial relations
between these kindred nations. One of the articles is as fol-
lows : " Slave-trade is assimilated to piracy ;it is rigorously
prohibited, and the vessels of the two States which may bo
engaged in this infamous traffic shall be judged and
punished according to the laws in force in their respective
countries against piracy." This is more stringent than
any article which it has been possible to introduce into
any previous treaty by the Liberian Consul, and there
is a manifest property in the two negro nations de-
nouncing slave-trade as piracy and punishing it accord-
inglY. Every nation has laws against piracy, but few have
them against slave-trade. If all nations would assimilaf-o
slave-trade to piracy as Hayti and Liberia have just done,.
and also allow the right of search, as England and America
have lately done, this nefarious traffic would be put down
effectually.—Anti-Slavery Reporter.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE YORK, WHITBY,
AND SCARBOROUGH RAILWAY.—A dreadful acci-
dent took place on the Whitby branch of the York, Scar-
borough, and Whitby Railway last night. As the train
which leaves the Rillington Junction shortly after seven,
and is due at Whitby about nine, was proceeding up the
Grosmont incline, the rope which attached the train to the
stationary engine snapped is two, and the train ran back-
wards down the incline. to great was the impetus thus
gained that the engine and carriages left the rails. A steno
of great confusion followed, which was rendered worse by
the darkness. As soon as the sufferers could be extricated
it was found that ten passengers were more or less injure( ,
and that two commercial travellers were killed. Eastern
Evening News (Hull)
of last night.
THE VICTORIA CROSS GALLERY has been pur-
chased from Mr. Desaugesb a
gentlemap residing at
Leeds,