The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-02 00:00:00

BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.

George Seorah and William Cooper, timber merchants,
Sheffield.
James Holmes, cloth manufacturer, Morley
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
Robert M'Gregor, tailor, Glasgow
J. and J, Bonnyman, blacksmith, Aberdeen
William Taylor Keith, merchant, Aberdeen]

Course of Exchange.---This Day,

Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 12 1 12 11
Antwerp .... 25 621 25 70
Brussels — 25 62t 25 70
Hamburgh
Paris ... .
Ditto
Marseilles — 25 65 25 70
Frankfort on Maine — 120/ 120 a
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh — 311 31a
Berlin
Madrid
Cadiz
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Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo..
Messina
Lisbon
Oporto

48 48i
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25 724 25 77i
25 72} 25 77t
25 72} 25 77}
25 72} 25 77k
25 75 25 80
25 75 25 SO
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52 62i

ACCIDENT AT THE LUDGATE-HILL VIADUCT.—
This morning considerab:e sensation was created in
the neighbourhood of Ludgate-hill, in consequence of a most
frightful accident, which it is feared will terminate with
loss of life. The workmen were raising an enormous iron
girder, sixty-eight feet in length, and weighing fourteen
tons. When about twelve feet high, the chain of the
crab by which it was being hoisted snapped in three
places, and fell with a great crash, the workmen flying
in all directions. One man, named Jones, jumped off into
the road from the top of the girder. The centre lodged on
some thick piles of timber at the base of the derrick. The
other end rested on the kerb, on the south side, where the
men were at work. As soon as possible Sergeant Hurst
and Sergeant Trim, of the City police, with a body of con-
stables, rescued James Peach, aged 50 vars, with a frac-
tured skull ; Samuel Coppoek, aged 44 years ; and John
Ryall, all severely injured. Cabs being procured, they
were removed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where they
now remain in a dangerous condition.

ATTEMPAITED WIFE MURDER IN CLERKEN WELL.
—Last night some excitement was caused in Seke..
ford-street, Clerkenwell, in consequence of loud cries of.
"Murder" and "Help" proceeding from the house num-
bered 34i in that street. On the police entering the house,
they found upon the ground, in a pool of blood, the wife of
a gold polisher named Elias John Roland. The unfor-
tunate woman was in an insensible state, and it was at
first thought that life was extinct. A medical
gentleman was called in, and finding that the
female was not dead advised her instant removal to
the Royal Free Hospital, which was done, and she was
received by Mr John D. Hill, the resident medical officer of
the institution, who placed her under care of Mr Wakley,
the house surgeon for the week. Upon examining the poor
creature those gentlemen found an incised wound on the
top of the head. The skull was also fractured at the
point of the wound. There were also two other contused
wounds on the head, evidently inflicted with some blunt
instrument. There was also a wound on the right arm,
and one a little larger on the left arm, showing that the
instrument employed had been used several times and with
great force upon the person of the unfortunate woman.
The wounds on the head having been dressed and proper
stimulants administered, the poor creature became some-
what conscious, and gave to the medical men and Inspector
Allen the following particulars of the affair :—About half••
past 4 o'clock in the afternoon her husband came to her and
asked for some money, which she refused to give him,
when he took up a chopper which was in the room, and
struck her on the head, knocking her down and rendering
her insensible. The husband was at once taken into cus-
tody, and was charged at the Clerkenwell Police Court,
this morning, with feloniously cutting and wounding
his wife, Ann Roland, by striking her on the head with
an axe, whereby her life was in danger. He was
remanded.

ASTRAY IN THE CATACOMBS OF PARIS.—The
persons residing near the entrance to the Catacombs,
at the old Barriers St. Jacques, were last night alarmed by
hearing a loud knocking and shouting, apparently proceed-
ing from persons below. The police being informed of the
fact, the keys were procured, and when the door was opened
five men came out. It appears that while working hi the
cellar of a brewery in the Rue Darreau they had found a
grated opening leading to the Catacombs, which they im-
mediately determined to visit. They accordingly broke
away the bars, and, having provided themselves with lan-
terns, commenced their explorations. They soon got be-
wildered in the intricate passages, but, fortunately, after
wandering about for mo:a than three hours, at last reached
a place where their cries could be heard. They were con-
ducted to the nearest commissary of police, who, after
ascertaining their identity, discharged them from custody.
ENGLISH PUBLISHERS AND FRENCH TRANS-
LATORS.—M. Louts Reveil, a young French author, being
in London lately, happened to meet with an English novel
which he found interesting. As it bore the usual notice,
" the right of translation is reserved," he applied to the
publisher and obtained the necessary permission. Having.
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Depot have been completely destroyed. The event took
place a few minutes past 6, shortly after the workmen en-
gaged in the erection of the building had left their work.
The building was nearly finished, the exterior being wholly
complete, and the interior fittings being also to some extent
advanced. The structure, which is about Soft, long and
Oft, broad, was a brick erection, with a frontage of stone,
and the roof was composed of iron beams, the empty space
being filled with wood. Immediately after a bright, vivid
glare of lightning, the whole of the roofing and the brick
walls fell with a crash that mingled loudly with the roar of
the thunder. A portion of the building falling on a wooden
tenement used as a mission station in connexion with the
Free Church broke through the roof and damaged one side
of it very considerably. The destruction was complete, only
the stone frontage being left standing; and yesterday the
scene of the occurrence, which was visited by many hun-
dreds, presented a curious illustration of the pranks the all-
powerful fluid may perfornr—w!rod, iron, and bricks being
mingled together in odd confusion, the wood being twisted
into the most fantastic forms. Luckily no one was in the
building at the time, the workmen employed thereon having
just left,—Nort4 British Daily Ala Ll.