The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-03 00:00:00

Course of Exchange,—Yesterday,

Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 12 1 12 11t
Antwerp
Brussels — 25 621 25 70
Hamburgh .. 13 9} 13 9i
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles — 25 65. 25 70
Frankfort on Maine — 1204 1201
Vienna
Trieste

Petersburgh
Berlin
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn I
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Messina

48 481
48f 48k
25 72} 26 77}
25 725 25 77;
25 72} 25 77}
25 725 25 774
25 75 25 SO
25 75 25 80
51i 52
52 62}

Lisbon
Oporto

ACCIDENT AT THE LUDGATE-HILL VIADUCT.—
Yestarday considerable 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 cff 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
E ELL,
and Sergeant Trim, of the City police, with a body of con-
stables, rescued James Peach, aged 50 years, 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.
ATTEMPTED
caused
—OnMonday
some
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was
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ford-street, Clerkenwell, in consequence of loud cries of
"Murder" and Help" proceeding from the house num-
bered 341 in that street. On the police entering the house,
they found upon the ground, in a pool of blood, the wile of
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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 rendeting
her insensible. The husband was at once taken into cus-
tody, and was charged at the Clerkenwell Police Court,
ye3terday twining, with feloniously cutting and wounding
his wife, Ann Roland, by strising her on the head with
an axe, whereby her life WAS in danger. He was
remanded,