The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-13 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—The recent horrible murder in a railway carriage
induces me to call the attention of the public, through your
columns, to a simple mode of preventing assassination or
outrage upon railway carriages.

In some parts of Russia, Austria, and Germany I have
travelled in trains in which all the carriages were in com-
munication by means of a gangwaypassing from one carriage
to the other, The guard requests the passengers to show
their tickets while the train is at full speed. The compart-
ments into which each carriage is divided may be shut at
pleasure or thrown open in case of need. The guard patrols
the train at intervals, and every passenger can claim not
only his assistance, but, on account of the communication
through and between the carriages, the assistance of all his
fellow passengers at any moment.

The railway companies would, under this system, have to
reconstruct the carriages now in use; but this consideration
should be nothing in comparison with the safety which the
plan mentioned would guarantee to the public.—l am, Sir,
your obedient servant, JULIUS BEI:TER.
Royal Exchange buildings, July 12.

CARDINAL WISEMAN AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE.
—Cardinal Wiseman presided yesterday at a
ckjezener at the Crystal Palace, for the benefit of the Brook-
green Catholic Almshouses. There were present Bishop
Morris and other clergymen, and several leading Catholic
laymen and their families. Speaking of the Pope, Cardinal
Wiseman said that a distinguished ecclesiastical guest of
his just come from Rome assured him that the Pope was
now in excellent health, and was even able to discharge
laborious duties recently. The Cardinal spoke of the
Queen with much feeling, and referred to the wisdom
which had marked her reign. Of the Prince of Wales the
Cardinal said that it was gratifying to find his royal high-
ness mingling with the people every day, and assisting to
advance the social well-being of the country. The Pope's
health and the Queen's health were both duly honoured,
the company standing while "God Bless the Pope" and
"God Save the Queen" were sung. Mr. Cook conducted
the music.

NEW LlFEBOAT.—Yesterday some satisfactory
harbour trials were made in the Regent's-canal
Dock, Limehouse, with two new 33-fief, lifeboats, under the
superintendence of the officers of the National Lifeboat In-
stitution, and in the presence of a large number of persons.
The lifeboats having been capsized by means of some tack-
ling attached to an hydraulic crane, they self-righted at
once, and the water brought back with the boats was self-
ejected in half a minute. One 9f the boats is to be sent to
New Brighton, and is the gift of the National Lifeboat In-
stitution, of Joseph Leather, Esq., of Liverpool, She is
called the Willie and Arthur, after his two sons. The
other is to be stationed at Sermen Cove, Land's End, and
the cost of it has been given to the Lifeboat Institution, by
Mrs Mary Ann Davis, of Bideford. It is called, at her re-
quest, The Cousins.

The Paris correspondent of our contemporary
the Berald appears to be excessively aggrieved by what
was purely an inadvertence on our part, in reference to a
few lines of comment *appended to an article from the
Opinion Nationale. No journal published in either country
is more scrupulously careful than The Sun in acknowledging
every quotation, however brief, from any one of its contem-
poraries.

ALLEGED MURDER IN DERBYSIIIRE.-011 Mon-
day afternoon last an inquest was opened at Clay
Cress, by Mr Coroner .Nasby, on the body of a man named
John M‘Morr..iw, aged 61, a lodginghouse keeper, at Clay
Cross, Derbyshire. In a deposition made by deceased he
stated that on the 22d of June ho went to Chesterfield to
attend a funeral. On returning home his wife and he quar-
relled, and he finally left the house. He did not return till
12 o'clock at night. She was then sitting in the kitchen in
her bonnet and shawl, and refused to go to bed, saying she
would cut her throat. Ho ultimately took off his coat and
hat, and hung them up at some distance from the fire. He
awoke between one and two o'clock and found himself on
fire. He cried for help, and saw his wife running away
from him and laughing at him. He would have been soon
burnt to death but that his cries roused the lodgers, who
threw buckets of water on him and extinguished the
flames. He was dreadfully burnt on the back, left side and
left arm, the two shirts he had on and his waiincoat being
nearly consumed. As soon as the fire was extinguished the
deceased went tor the police and publicly charged his wife
with setting fire to him. She denied it, and said he had
fallen on the fire while drunk. Evidence was produced at
the inquest which contradicted her. As a proof of de-
ceased's intoxication, she raked out of the ashes his tobacco
box, saying, There, you see, you fell in the fire ;" but
one of the lodgers confirmed deceased that he had taken the
box out of his pocket after he was burnt, and that he had
left it on the table &hen he went for the police. Deceased's
coat was also found by the police to be burnt, although he
affirmed that he had not got it on at the time. He how-
ever pointed out that, although his left arm was burnt, the
right sleeve of his coat was destroyed. and he charged his
wife with burning it. It was also proved that when de-
ceased was heard crying out " Fire" his wife was heard
laughing and. talking upstairs. Although deceased was
attended by Dr Wilson, and had everything done for him
that was possible, he died on the 9th inst.. from the burns.
The inquiry was adjourned till Friday next. The wife,
Mary M.‘Morrow is in custody, charged with the murder of
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