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London, England, 1864-03-10 00:00:00

springs of life, and starving childhood and decrepid
age droop for the want of sustenance, while even
those in the vigour of maturity cannot always wage
the fight, but sink down at last victims to a want
of due precaution on the part of those whose
bounden duty it is to watch over and preserve them,
that they may live among their fellow men the full
time appointed by their Maker, and perform the
duties which their station calls forth.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

`NEUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

BAVARIA.

INCREASED ILLNESS OF THE KING.
MUNICH, MARca 10.

The King's illness has increased. His Majesty
has received extreme unction at five o'clock this

morning,

A bulletin issued at 6 a.m. today says :—" His
Majesty has passed a sleepless night, and is in a
very weak condition. The erysipelatous tumour
has spread."

SPAIN.

MADRID, MARCEE 8.

In to•day's sitting of the Senate the President of
the Council brought in a bill abolishing the consti-
tutional reform law of 1858.
The 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 appointment of mayors
of towns by Royal decree.

INDIA AND CHINA MAILS,
MALTA, MARCH 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 mails to Suez, arriving
there on the 3d (two days early),

FRANCE.

PARIS, MARCH 10.

The Moniteur of this morning says :—" A foreign
newspaper considers as abnormal the appointment
of Marshal M‘Mahon to the command of the camp
of Chalons. It is, however, quite regular. The
divisional staff will be composed according to the
ordinary basis and regulations."
The bulletin of the lfoniteur says that the dis-
turbances in Rome were not of a serious nature.
The measures taken in concert by the Duke de
Montebello and Mgr. de Merode, permit the hope
that they will not be renewed.

BOURSE, MArch 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. 30c. Mobilier have slightly
advanced, the present price being 1,040 fr. 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
Do. end month —
3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 40
Credit Mobilier..., 10:)7 50
Do. end month 1043 75
Bank Shares 3318 75
Credit Foncier
Roman

Italian Loan 67 30
Do. end month —
New ditto
Do. end month —
Russian

Austrian

Spanish Threes,
Home Debt
Deferred

Orleans

Cash. Account.
100:5 .. 1005
951 .. 951

Northern

New ditto
Lyons, and Meditcartinean 927 50 .. 925
New. ditto - 875
SJuthern 650 .. 655 --
Western
Eastern
SarJinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa 677 50 .. 585
Ditto to Barcelona

SHIELDS, Tuesday Night.—The weather having
moderated, and the wind having kept well from the north-
ward, a high tide enabled a considerable fleet of laden
colliers and large vessels to Int to sea this afternoon from
the Tyne, The night is tine, and the wind is favourable to
them.

THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT PUTNEY.—On Tues.
day evening Mt.. William Carter, the coroner for
the Eastern Division of Surrey, held an inquest at the
Railway Ilatel, Putnoy, on the body of Gilbert Cruick-
shank; aged 25, a book-stallkeeper, in the employment of
Messrs. W. H, Smith and San at Putney. The deceased
while attending his duties was called by ono of the female
servants at a Mr. Alexander's house, the garden of which
adjoins the station on the down side of the line, to give her
some paper, and accordingly he ran across to her, when the
4 50 p.m. train from London (not stopping at Putney) was
within about 300 y ards 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 get
one leg on to the platform when the buffer caught him and
threw him between the metals. He was dragged under the
ash-pan 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 thoordinary 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
especially at the Putnoy station.
The line there took a sharp curve just through the bridge,
persons crossing the line,
and it was impossible for anyone to see a train approaching
until it was almost up to the platform. Travelling by
railway was now so universal that it was not
only necessary that every possible precaution should be
taken, but that those who, like himself, might be in a
position to see the dangers should 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 Boa7cl had
already authorised such alterations at the station as would
obviate the dangers to which the learned coroner referred.
The company had always been anxious to do everything
possible for the comfort and safety of the passengers ; but,
though the platform at the Putney station was never left
without a porter night or day,
it had been found i ~possible prevent the public risking their lives in crossing in spite
of cautions and warnings, and even the porters were 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 effected at the station, and returned a verdict that
the deceased lost his life through imprudently
line of railway in front of an approaching engine.
tud© through Parliament gives the
now passing crossing the
THE NEW TicE,ET OF LEAVE.—The Penal Servi-
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 expira-
tion of the said term be convicted of some indictable offence
in which case the licence will be immediately forfeited by
law." It also adds that "upon 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 not load 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 at them thus ran—
" This licence is liable to be revoked in case of misconduct."
Lastly, the old licnei.) adds that if revoked the convict may
have to undergo the whole remairfng 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 cffence," 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
pnnishable summarily with three months' imprisonment
with or without hard labour; and by another clause, whero
the licence shall be either forfeited by a conviction for an
indictable offence or revoked in pursuance of summary con•
vietion 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 addi-
tion to his new 6cntence.