The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-05 00:00:00

'RAILWAY SfiAßa.

St. Germain
Versailles, B. B 5BO ... 594) ... 572 50 ... 972 50
L.B 325 ... 330 ... 329 7T3 :327 5,1
Havre
Strasburg to Bale 3,7 50 „, 3u7 50 ..:3.1 50 ... 567 50
Montpellier to Cette 377 50 ... 377 51 ... 377 50 ... 377 50
LiELOIAN r ElNDS—ButiesaLe, Sim*. 3.
Actual Debt, 234. per Cent.
Rothschild's Lonn, 5 per Cent l, 14.
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.
3 per Cent. 71%
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent —
Society of Commerce, 4 &c.; per Cent.
Bank of Be;gium, 5 per Cent 73
National Society
...... Erussels Papers, Sept. 3.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 3.
Money. Bills,
Actual Debt, 2 per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
A wort Svattic,4;i per Cent.... 96 06 W
Ditto, ditto, a!,4 per cent Bl 81 w
Commercial Company, 4,, per cent I72W 172%
Ditto (1802 and 1833) 5 per cent.
Ditto 1857, 9 per cent.
Loan 1637, f.) per cant. lO w 100
Exchange on London, One month l2 05
Two months
—Dutch Papers, Sept. 3.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.

DEAL, SEPT. variable.—Arrived the Mary
Tayler, Williams, from Calcutta. Sailed the Lady East,
Robinson, for Bombay •' Indiana, Parker, Mauritius; Pa-
ragon, Cook, Cape of Good Hope; Astoria, Saute, New
Orleans, with the rest of the outward bound.
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 4.—Wind N. N. W. --Arrived the
Virginian, Harris, from New York—sailed the 13th uh. ;
Christy Jane, Labrador; Lucy Sharp, M'Fea,2 St.
Petersburgh.
PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 4.—Wind N. W. to W.—Sailed the
Duke of Argyle, Bristow, for Madras; Samson, Sturges,
New York.

PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 4.—Wind W. N. w.
GLOUCESTER, SEPT. 3.--Arrived the Jane and Mary
Sampson, from Trieste.
SCILLY, AUG 4.—Arrived Emma, Percival, Gibraltar.
NEWPORT, SEPT. 3._ Arrived the Ureven, Anderson
from Restigouche.

WEYMOUTH, SEPT. 4. —Off port, the Bolton, Young
from Bombay.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE CRO

DON RAILWAY.

An inquisition was taken before C. J. Cartarr, Esq.
and a respectable jury, at the Dartmouth Arms,
Sydenham, at six o'clock on Monday evening, and ad-
journed at nine until three o'clock on Tuesday, when the
Jury again assembled, pursuant to their recognizances,
to investigate the circumstances of the death of Ellen
Murphy, a remarkably fine young woman, aged twenty-
one, a servant in the employ of Mr. Thomas Coulson,
of Forest Wood, superintendent of the works of the
London and Croydon railway, who was found shock-
ingly mutilated on Sunday evening.
After the Jury were sworn, they proceeded to view
the body of the deceased, which lay in a back room of
the above house. The spectacle which the body pre-
sented was appalling, the right side of her skull being
completely battered in, her neck broken, and her right
foot nearly severed in two, besides other extensive in-
juries which could not be correctly ascertained in con-
sequence of the corpse being covered with blood.
Mr. Thomas Coulson said he saw the deceased, who
was a girl of exemplary character, and bad lived with
him for two months, standing without her bonnet on the
bridge crossing the railway, opposite his house, at half-
past seven o'clock on Sunday night. He had occ&sion
to absent himself for about an hour, and on his return
Mrs. Coulson expressed great uneasiness at the de-
ceased's absence, upon which he sent a watchman in
search of her, and in a few minutes he returned with
the melancholy tidings that she was lying dead within
thirty feet of the bridge. The body was immediately
removed, under his direction, to the Dartmouth Arms.
By the Coroner—Witness was privileged to walk up
the line, but he had on all occasions been extremely
cautious in doing so, and had repeatedly given his ser-
vants injunctions not to approach the railway. On
Sunday three females called upon the deceased, and he
had understood that she had imprudently ventured'with
her friends up the line near as far as New Cross, when
they were met by a policeman, who ordered them off.
James BassetWbne ofthe Company's servants, stated'
that he saw the deceased, whom he knew, and three
others proceeding along the railway just before eight on
Sunday evening. He told the deceased that she was
in danger as a train was cowing down the inclined plane
towards Croydon, upon which the deceased aid her
friends crossed over to the London side, and shortly
after, seeing the up-train coming towards her, she again
crossed to the opposite side, and seemed to be aware
how to avoid danger. Witness told her she had no
business on the line, and he saw nothing more of her
until he was sent in search of her by Mr. Coulson at
nine o'clock, when he discovered her a lifeless corpse
and nearly bent double. In his opinion she must have
teen struck by the London train in endeavouring to
cross the line to get to her master's house.

By the Coroner.—Witness observed a splash of
blood on Monday morning four yards to the south-east
of where he found the body.
A number of other witnesses were examined, from
whose testimony it appeared that Thomas Miles, one of
the railway police, met the deceased and three females
between New-cross and Brockley-bridge, where the de-
ceased, in answer to his questions, stated that her mas-
ter had given her leave to go down the line. He or-
dered the three females off, and accompanied the de-
ceased to the extremity of his beat towards her master's
house, and within 250 yards of the steps leading to it.
He was of opinion that it must have been the last train
but one from Croydon that did the mischief.

Mr. James Seaman, the superintendent of the police,
was in the train in question and did not feel the shock,
nor had he been able to ascertain if there was any blood
upon the engines, tenders, or carriages belonging to the
Company.

In the course of the inquiry it was stated that,
upon a red signal being hoisted the train immediately
stopped, and a white light was a signal for all being
clear, but it was likewise elicited that upon the trains
going down the inclined planes, in ordar to check the
speed, it was necessary to open the furnace doors, which
caused such a blaze of light that it was impossible for
the persons on the engines or tenders to see 20 yards
before them on a dark night.
All the remaining witnesses that were in and on the
train referred to, deposed that they did not feel any
shock ; and it was stated by the engineer that the acci-
dent might have occurred without their feeling it, as
the engine itself was 13 tons, besides the additional
weight created by the impetus of travelling at the rate
of 30 miles an hour with the train behind it.
At this stage of the proceedings it was mentioned
that some men had been seen larking with the deceased,
and the inquest was adjourned.

The British Queen steam-ship passed in front of
Brighton on Monday on her way to Portsmouth, on her
second voyage to New York.—Brighton Guardian.
Her Majesty's new steamer Medusa, intended
for the morning line of packets between Liverpool and
Dublin, proceeded on an experimental trip to Kingstown,
under the command of Lieut. Philipps, who has been ap-
pointed to her from the Lucifer, accompanied by Captain
Bevis, her Majesty's agent in Liverpool. Sbe accom-
plished her return passage in the unparalleled shirt time
of nine hours and 38 minutes. from pier to pier, and this
under many disadvanta.qeouseircumstances, having to con-
tend with a very heavy, beam sea, and her engines being
new and stiff, and falling short by nearly a revolution per
minute of their proper speed. We understand she was
frequently going 13 knots per log, and had she been fa-
voured by a spring tide, her passage would scarcely have
exceeded nine hours. She, and her vister ship, the Mer-
ha, were modelled by Sir W. Symonds, and their machi-
nery, which has proved to be of the very first order, was
constructed at the celebrated foundry of our townsmen,
Fawcett, Preston, and Co. They are of about 900 tons
burden, and 320 horse power, and, owing to their great
beam, have admirable accommodations. The size and the
strength of these vessels, their power whether under can-
vass or steam, and the circumstance of their passing the
perilous navigation at the entrance of our river by daylight,
a matter of great consideration at all seasons, but particu-
larly in the winter, have left the public nothing to desire.—
Liverpool Standard.
BAIL CASES.--In the Insolvent Debtors'
Court on Wednesday, Commissioner Bowen sat to
take bail cases. There were twenty five town cases and
one country case. The number of applications made since
the rising of the Court for the vacation have amounted to
eighty-one, and, with the exception of a few instances, the
parties have been discharged on sureties. The Commis-
sioners have appointed further days, and by sitting in the
vacation have carried out the humane provision. It has
been the means of restoring a very considerab!e number to
their occupations, instead of keeping them idle for some
weeks, and vitiating their nrineipies.
MAGISTERIAL CHANGES.—At Bow-street
Police Court on Tuesday a communication was received
from Lord John Russell, acquainting the sitting Magis-
trate that Mr. Hall, of Hatton-garden Police Court, has
been appointed Chief Magistrate, with a salary of 1,200/.
a-year, in the room of Sir F. Roe, resigned ; and Mr. Jar-
dine, the Barrister, second Magistrate, with a similar salary,
in the room of Mr. Minsbull, who retires on a superan-
nuated allowance. Mr. Twyford, who has been a police
Magistrate seventeen year. continues to officiate as third
Magistrate, with a salary of 1,0001. a-year. A Corres-
pondent states that Mr. Boyce Combo, of Lambeth-street,
has been appointed to Hatton-garden, vice Mr. Hall, pro_
motel/ as above; Mr. Greenwood, of the Thames-police, to
Hatton-garden, vice Mr. Benett, who retires ; Mr. H. G.
Codd. of Worship-street, to Marylebone Police-office, vice
Mr. Hoskins, who retires; and that Messrs. Chambers nod
Conant, of Marlborough-street, and Mr. White, of Queen-
square, also retire.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SEPT. 3
NEW REFORM REGISTRY ASSOCIA (lON.

meeimg was held this day, pursuant to the requisi-
tion of Mr. O'Cumill, for the purpose cf forming an as-
sociation for promoting the liberal registry throughout
Ireland. fhc chair wa3 tekeri by Sir M. L. AemAN,
Bart., M.P.

Mr. O'CONNELL said that it was a matter of great con-
gratulation to the Irish people that the influential gentlemen
who formed the Reform Reg:stry Association were ready to
come forward to join them in their exertions. It was cot his
desire to form a new body whilst another, with similar ob-
jects, was in being. He simply a iheti to revive, as far as
practicable, the Reform Registry Association of Ireland.—
The revired Society would be pledged to nothing but the
registry; they should neither be repcalers nor anti-rtpealers
—no man should mention the word " repeal" at the
meetings of the new body. The Precursors had lodged
1,000/. and upwards in his hands, so that they would
have a good sum to begin with. His own subscrip-
tion would be 20/., being for himself and the three
members of his family who were in 'Parliament, and he
hoped that every Liberal Member would contribute towards
their finances. He would propose that every man paying 11.
should be a member of the new Society, and that 5/. should
enthle him to be a member of the committee. He men-
tioz.ed several places in Ireland where it was certain
that if the next registry were duly attended to they would
put out the Tories. Mr. O'Connell concluded his speech
by moving the formation of a Society on the conditions
stated, and a second resolution to the effect, that such bo /y
should have no connexion e7hatever with any other political
body whatever.— Passed.
Several gentlemen were then admitted members of tl:e
New Association, and several subscrif fons were announced.

THE LORD LIEUTENANT.
His Excellelicy has nearly recovered from a recent ill-
n-ss, which rendered it necessary to postpone his intended
visit to his scat in the County Waterford.

ELECTION FOR THE CITY OF WATERFORD

The Sheriffs have appointed Friday next, the 6th inst.,
for holding a special Court for the election of a Member
of Parliament, in the room of Thomas Wyse, Esq,. It is
not apprehended that any opposition will be offered to the
re-election of that Finn. Gentleman.