The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-10 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, MARCH 8.
In to•day's sitting of the Senate the President o
the Council brought in a bill abolishing the consti•

tutional reform law of 1858.

Tae Minister of the Interior laid three bills
before the Chamber. The first is for the suppres-
sion of electoral offences, the second regulates the.
parliamentary disabilities of public functionaries,
and the third proposes the appolattnent of mayors
of towns by Royal d,-.cree.

INDIA AND CHINA MAILS,
MALTA, MARcii 8 7.20 p.m.
The Massilia and Pera, with the above mails,
leave at midnight.
The former may be expected at Marseilles on the
11th inst., and the latter at Southampton about the
17th inst.

The Nubia brought the m3iia to Suez, arriving
there on the 31 (two days early).

FRANCE.

FARIS, MARcia 10.

The Moniteur of this morning 6aye :—" A foreign
newspaper considers as abnormal the appointment
of Marshal M‘Me,hon to the command of the camp
of Chalons. It is, however, quite regular. The
divisional staff will be compoal according to the
ordinary basis and regulations."
The bulletin of the illonPeur says that the dis-
turbances in Rome were not of a serious nature.
The measures taken in concert by the Duke de
Montebello and Msr. de Merode, permit the hope
that they will not be renewed.
BounsE, i‘Lrch 9.—The market has been firm,
with a fair amount of business doing, but prices
show no improvement, Threes, for the Account,
being unvaried at 66fr. 30e. Mobilier have slightly
advanced, the present price being I,olofr. Rail- •
way Shares have varied but little from yesterday's
quotations. The market slightly improved towards
the close, and left off as follows :

41 per Cents. 93
Oa, end month
3 per Cents

Italian Loan
67 30
Do. end month —
New ditto
Do. end month...,
Russian .
Am:Arian ..... o• • "--* ."--
.S. pani z, !I Threes.„,.
C.iong.,, Pcbt
Defared -

D. end month.... 66 40

Credit 50
Do. end 1u0rtt1i....1943 75

'3lB '0

Credit lioncier 1210

aoman

Be IL

Cash. Anew:mt.
1005 .„ 105
•.. 951

...
Northern
Nes,/ ditto — • •
Lyons an M-3diturra....van 927 50 .. 925
New ditto 875
S3uthcrn
Western ,• , 516 517 50
Eastern • • ....... .• 475 475
Sm-diniqr.
402 50 .. 402 50
f,mrt)ll,3 ,„, ..... 5!3 75 ~ 518 75
North of Split.
SttragosAa .. 577 50 .. 555
Ditto to .13ttroolona 295

SHIELDS, Tuesday Night.—The weather having
moderated, and the wind havicg kept well from the north-
ward, a high tide enabled a considerable fleet of laden
colliers and large vessels to I.ht to sea this afternoon from
the Tyne, The eight is tiot', ani the wind is fav,,nrable to
them.

THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT PCITNEY.—On Tues-
day evening Mr. William Carter, the coroner for
the Eastern Division of Surrey, held an inquest at the
Railway Hotel, Putney, on the body of Gilbert Cruick-
shank, aged 25, a book-stalikeeper, in the employment of
Messrs. W. 8., Smith and San at Putney. The deceased
while attending his duties was called by one of the female
servants at a Mr. Alexander's house, the garden of which
adjoins the station on the down side cf the line, to give her
some paper, and accordingly he ran across to her, when the
450 p.m. train from London (not stopping at Putney) was
within about 300 yards of the station. He got safely across,
and gave the girl the paper, and immediately the down
train passed. He jumped on the line to go back to his book-
stall, not seeing that a return engine was running up, and
was at that moment under the bridge. He managed to gat
one leg on to the platform when the buffer caught, him and
threw him between the metals. He was dragged under the
ashepan a distance of about 150 yards. When picked up
he was quite dead. Mr. Thorn, the stationmaster at Put-
ney, stated, in reply to the coroner, that it was almost
impossible to prevent the ordinary passengers from crossing
the line. The coroner said that he had considered for a
long time past that something ought to be done to prevent
porcons crossing the line, espechill
at the Putney station.
The line there took a sharp curve just through the bridge,
and it was impossible for anyone to see a train approaching
until it was almost up to the plaVorna. Travelling by
railway was now so universal that it was not
only necessary that every possible precaution should be
taken, but that those who, ii}ro
himself, might be in a
position to see the dangers eheuld draw the atten-
tion of the railway
companies to the matter. Mr.
Godson, the general superintendent of the line, who was
present on behalf of the company, said that the Doe-al had
already authorised such al 'orations at the station as would
obviate the dangers to which the learned coroner referred.
possible for the comfort and safety of the passengers;
The company had always been anxious to do everything
but,
though the platform at the Putney station was never left
without a porter night er day, it had been found impossible
to prevent the public risking their liver; in crossing in spite
of cautions and warnings, and even the porters wore some-
times obliged to use forcible means to prevent the passen-
gers crossing the line. The jury expressed their satisfac-
tion at hearing Mr. Godson's statement that an alteration
was to be effeicted at the station, and returned a verdict that
the deceased lost his life through inoprudentiv crossing the
line of railway in front of an approaching engine.
TUE NEW TICKLT OF LEAyE..—The Penal Servi-
tude 'Sill now Passing through Parliament gives the
new form proposed for orders of licence. The old form
gave licence to the convict to be at large in the United
Kingdom for the remainder of his sentence unless it should
please her Majesty sooner
to revoke the licence; the new
form adds, "or unless the said A B shall before the expire*
Lion of the said term be convicted of soiree indictable offence
in which case the licence will be immediately forfeited by
law." It also adds that "linen the breach of any of the con-
ditions endorsed on the licence it will be liable to be revoked,
whether such breach is followed by a conviction or not."
The conditions endorsed are to be these four :—" 1. The
holder shall preserve his licence, and rroduce it when called
upon to do so by a magistrate or police officer;" this condi-
tion is new. "2. He shall abstain from any violation of the
law. 3. He shall not habitually associate with notoriously
bad characters, such as reputed thieves and prostitutes. 4.
lie shall nut lead an idle and dissolute life, without visible
means of obtaining an honest livelihood. These three con-
ditions are substantially the same as on the licence, except
(if it be an exception) that the first of them thus ran—
" This licence is liable to be revoked in case of misconduct."
Lastly, the old licence adds that if revoked the convict may
have to undergo the whole remain'ng portion of his original
sentence;" the corresponding clause in the proposed new
licence is that if it is forfeited or revoked " in consequence
of a conviction of any offence,"
the convict will be liable to
undergo the term of penal servitude which was unexpired
when the licence was granted. By a clause in the bill, a
broach of the conditions by an act not of itself punishable
either upon indictment or summary conviction is to be
punishable summarily with three months' imprisonment
with or without hard labour; and by another clause, where
the licence shall be either forfeited by a conviction for an
indictable offence or revoked in pursuance of summary con-
viction under this or any ether Act of Parliament, the con-
vict is to undergo the term of penal servitude which was
unexpired when the licence was granted, and this in aldi-
tion to his new sentence,