The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1864

by some very fine tributary streams so far as salmon
culture is concerned, and among his other feats, and
to make assurance doubly sure, Mr. Ashworth, in
addition to sowing salmon eggs in barren rivers as
he would sow wheat in a field, transports the live
fish from stream to stream. Mr. Miller, the fishery
superintendent, conveyed 40 adult salmon in a tub
a distance of 20 miles, in order to place them in the
River Robe, a tributary to Lough Mask, a lough
which, by means of the cut connecting it with Lough
Corrib, has now a communication with the sea, an
object that is highly essential to salmon life; and
the success of Mr. Ashworth's experiments was ac-
knowledged to be complete when the smolts were
seen migrating to the sea in April last. On the
principle, then, of making a blade of corn grow
• where one never grew before, the proprietors of the
Irish fisheries are certainly national benefactors;

`With reference to the article on " Fish Culture
in France" which recently appeared in The Sun, it
may be as well to state here that the French people
eat all kinds of fish, whether they be from the sea,
the river, the leke, or the canal. In Scotland and
Ireland the salmon only is bred artificially, because
it is a valuable and money yielding animal, and no
other fish is regarded in that country as being of
value except for sport. In France large quantities
of eels are bred and eaten, but in Scotland, and in
some parts of England the people have such a hor-
ror of that fish that they will not touch it. This
of course is a mere prejudice, as the eel is good for
food in a very high degree. In all Catholic coun-
tries there are so many fast days that fish food
becomes to the people an essential article of diet ;
in France this is so, and the consequence is that a
good many private amateurs in pisciculture are to
be found throughout the empire, but the mission of
the French Government in connection with fish cul-
ture is apparently to meddle only with the rearing
and acclimatising of the more valuable fishes. It
would be a waste of energy for the authorities at
Huningue to commence the culture of the carp or
perch. In this Protestant country there is no de-
mand for the commoner river or lake fishes, except
for the purposes of sport; and with one or two ex-
ceptions, such as the Lochleven trout, the charr,
&c., there is no commerce carried on in these fishes.
One has but to visit the fish market at Paris to; ob-
serve that all kinds of fresh-water fish and river
erustacm a are there ranked as saleable and largely
purchased.
Some schemes for the extension of pisciculture in
England are now being matured. Dr. Buckland
has himself described in a lecture (reported in the
Times) his experiments of fish hatching in the
Thames; how they will succeed must be left to time
to develope. If a great series of breeding ponds
were constructed to feed the Severn, it would tend
to the multiplication of our finest salmon, and
assuredly raise the fish rental of that fine river to a
very high point.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

THE OPENING OF THE CHARING-CROSS.

Yesterday morning Capt. Tyler, R.E., the Government
inspector of railways, made his final inspection of this rail-
way. The examination commenced at the London-bridge
extremity of the line, where Captain Tyler minutely in-
spected the working of the signals and points. After some
time had been spent in these operations, the Government
inspector and the officials entered an experimental train, and
made a short run to the Cannon-street West signal-box,
close to the junction of the main with the short line or
arm which is to connect the former with the future Can-
non•street or City Terminus. Here the inspector entered
the box, and rigidly examined the working of every pair
of points, as well as Mr. Walker's admirable system of
train-signalling, which appeared satisfactory in every re-
spect ; after which the officials re-entered the traiu,
which then proceeded on its way at the rate of about five
miles an hour to the Blackfriars station, where the same
experiments were gone through. The whole party then
walked along the permanent way to the Charing-cross ter-
minus, inspecting the signals and points at the Waterloo
junction on their way, the hain following, and finally com-
ing to a standstill on the immense bridge which spans the
Thames and carries the iron road from the south to the
north bank, or Midd:esex shore of the river. On arriving at
Charing-cross Captain Tyler examined most critically the
state of this immense building, and the arrangements for the
safe working of the line.
It should here be mentioned that the Cannon-street traffic
to and from Charing-cross will be worked on a single line
of rails for a short distance between the termini not neces-
sitating a double line; while from the Charing-cross ter-
minus along the whole length of the Thames-bridge as far
as the Belvedere-read, Lambeth, where an immense water
tank has been erected, there is an engine siding. The
massive iron work of the bridge and that of the roof of the
termini is being painted of a chocolate colour, the large
nuts and other portions being gilt in order to relieve the
monotony of a single colour. The booking and station-
masters' offices are complete, and everything is ready for the
opening day.
This, it was settled, at the close of the inspection, which
lasted from about ten o'clock till two in the afternoon,
should be next Monday, and the Charing-cross Railway
will, therefore, on that day be thrown open for public pas-
senger traffic. It was at first intended that trains should
be run through from the West-end terminus at Charing-
cross along the North and Mid Kent lines ; but it has
now been arranged, in order to get the railway into safe
and good working order, that at present through trains
shall only be run in connection with the Greenwich line
at first, so that passengers will, for the present, have
to re-book at London-bridge for stations on the main and
other branch lines of the South-Eastern Railway.

CHARING CROSS-WESTERN AND NORTHERN
EXTENSIONS._

The Western Extension is intended to commence in the
parish of Lambeth by a junction with the existing line of
the Charing-cross Railway, and to terminate. in Kensington
by a junction with the West London Railway. There will
then be two branches—ono entirely in the parish of Lam-
beth, and the other at Kensington. The Northern Exten-
sion is to commence in St. Martin-in-the• Fields by a junc-
tion with the main line, and terminate with the Great
Northern in the parish of St. Pancras. Two branches are
to be carried to junctions With the Midland Company's Ex-
tension into London, and from St. George, Bloomsbury, to
the London and North-Western. The estimated cost of
construction is 404,000.

and

Romantic Suicide through Love

Jealousy, at nomerton,,

Yesterday morning Mr. H. Raffles Wal thew, deputy coro •
ner, resumed, at the Adam and Eve Tavern, Lower Homer-
ton, an inquiry respecting the death of Esther Austin, aged
19 years, who was alleged to have committed suicide under
very painful circumstances.
It appeared from the evidence taken on the previous occa-
sion that the deceased was a waitress at Kinsley's Coffee-
house, in Angel-lane, Temple Mills._

George Austin, the father of the deceased, said that she
used to return home to his house in Stratford every evening.
She was keeping company with a young man named Henry
Hoggett, to whom she was deeply attached. She did not
return home as usual on the night of last Tuesday week,
and he never saw her again until a week afterwards, when
her body was found in the river Lea. He heard that she
was last in the company of Henry Hoggett. The latter had
known her for two years, and he had frequently called upon
deceased, especially when she was ill. But latterly he had
taken to courting another, aad on the Tuesday night in
question deceased called upon him to know about it. They
left to walk together, and that was the last that was seen of
her. She was a steady, good girl, and was not at all of a
suicidal turn. She was of a cheerful disposition.

Henry Hoggett, the young man in question, said that
when he and deceased walked out and got as far as the
stiles at Homerton-hill, he said, " I must now leave you, as
I want to go and see Jane Shrub, who is waiting for me at
the top of the hill." She replied, "Mind, wrap her up
well ;" and he turned away to go to Jane Shrub. He had
not gone far when the deceased said, " Good night—good
night !" in a tone that gave him a turn. He looked back
and saw her running down the hill. He was at first going
to follow her, but seeing a man and a woman driving along
the road he thought that they would look after her. He
had no doubt that she committed suicide through being so
fond of him. He had never promised to marry her, and he
had told her about Jane Shrub before. She then said, " See
me home at night now, for when you are married you will
not be able to walk with me along the lanes." She also said
she "would like to creep into a forest and never be seen
again by any one." He loved her, but his love was the love
of friendship, and nothing more. She was always very
jealous of the other young woman.
George Austin recalled, said that Hoggett was certainly
paying his addresses to deceased. Witness had since said to
Hoggett, "If you did not put her to death, you were the
cause of it," and he said, " I have no doubt I was."
Hoggett said that he could not say that he was the cause
of her suicide. She had met Jane Shrub before. There was
certainly something strange in the way she left witness
when he said he was going to see the other young woman.
He only considered her as a friend. He had taken her to a
theatre. He had never deceived her or misled her. He did
not know whether he would have spent the New Year's-
day with his second young woman.
John Ting, 383 N, said that last Tuesday some persons
came to the station and asked him to drag the river Lea.
After an hour and a quarter's dragging he got deceased out.
In her pocket was found a portmonnaie containing two six-
pences and a part of a tradesman's bill with an address next
door to Mr. Kinsley's, in Angel-lane. No doubt she had
put it in her pocket in order that it might lead to her iden-
tification.
Mr. G. Miller, M.R.C.S., said that ho had made a care•
ful examination of the body of deceased, and he found no
marks of violence. She was perfectly healthy, and had been
a virtuous girl.
The Coroner said that there was no doubt that the poor
girl had been driven almost into a state of madness by the
extraordinary conduct of the young man Hoggett. Her
feelings on the night when he so abruptly told her he was
going straight to meet another were no doubt agonising,
and she committed suicide, but of course there was no direct
evidence of the fact.
The jury returned a verdict that deceased was found
drowned in the river Lea, but there was no evidence as to
how she came into the water of the said river.