The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-04 00:00:00

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POLICE---THIS DAY.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET, THIS DAY.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. A DETERMINED CASE.
Matthew Newbury Coleman, a tailor, 70 years of age, was
charged before Mr. 'ryrwhitt with attempting to commit
suicide.

Mary Jane Nutty, a respectable female, said the de•
fendant was her father, and on the previous evening, in
consequence of his attempting to hanghimsolf with a scarf,
she gave him into custody for his protection.
A female stepped into the witness•box, and said she saw
the defendant get on a chair with the intention of hanging
himself, and he then went into another room, and while
there she heard him sharpening a knife, and on going into
the room she found that he had bared his neck evidently
with the intention of cutting his throat. He afterwards
said that he was determined to do it, and should drown
himself.

In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the daughter, who seemed
much affitcted., said her father had latterly drank a good
deal.

The defendant said he was a tailor, but too old for it no w.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said the best thing he could do for the de-
fendant was to remand him fur a week.

WESTMINSTER.

PITIABLE 00CURBENCE.—James Pane, the conductor,
running into the Victoria Station, Pimlico, was brought
before Mr. Arnold for having unlawfully killed Thomas
Henry Frost.
Hannah Hibbard, of 13, Carlton-terrace, Kentish-town,
said—Just before eight o'clock last evening I was in an
omnibus driven by the prisoner. It was near the Victoria
station, which the omnibus had just left. I was kneeling
upon the seat and looking out of window, there having been
a dispute with a man and the conductor, because the man's
dog had torn the conductor's trousers. Suddenly, while
I was looking, I saw a little child run under the omnibus.
Directly afterwards I saw a woman rush towards it. I
supposed she was the mother; she had an infant in her
arms ; she cried out "My child I my child I " and she went
to reach it, and in doing so slipped, and fell under the
wheels of the omnibus.

Mr. Arnold—At what pace was the omnibus going ?
Witness—lt was only just started, and going very slow.
Mr. Arnold—Was the child that ran under the omnibus
killed ?

Inspector Humphreys—No, that one escaped, but the in-
fant was killed.

Thomas Wright, 3, Paradise-street, Lambeth—l was
crossing the road at Victoria-street, and I saw the woman
with an infant in her arms and another ono by her side. I
saw the child run under the wheel of the omnibus. The
woman tried to snatch it up, and in doing so fell under the
omnibus. She was picked up between the wheels.
The conductor of the omnibus said—l saw a child about
two years old deliberately walk between the wheels of the
carriage and stand upright under it. The mother seeing
the position of the child, rushed forward and slipped down.
She was carried into a house.

Witness Wright recalled—l saw the infant had a scar on
its temple. I heard people say the child was dead.
Matthew Fraser—l am the father of the child. When I
returned home last night at nine o'clock I found my in-
fant, which I had left well in the morning, dead, and my
wife was at the Standard tavern, where she had been taken
away very ill. She is still in a very bad state.

Mr. Arnold—ls that all the evidence ?
Inspector Humphreys—lt is.
Thomas Wright—The omnibus was going very slow; it
had hardly started.
Mr. Arnold—There is not the least blame attachable to
the defendant. This melancholy occurrence was purely
accidental. Prisoner is discharged.

MARKETS-THIS DAY.

MARK-LANE.

year not to be
t half year.

EPSOM RACES-THIS DAY.

A very small supply of English wheat was received fresh
up to this morning's market. The attendance of the trade
was limited, and the demand for all qualities ruled heavy,
at barely stationary prices.
There was a fair show of foreign wheat on the stands.
The best descriptions were firm as to value; otherwise the
trade ruled very inactive, at drooping currencies.
Floating cargoes of grain were in moderate request, at
late rates.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

The barley trade was in a very sluggish state, at fully
the late decline in prices.
The inqniry for malt was confined to immediate wants,
at late rates.

In the value of fine oats very little change took place ;
but the demand for other kinds was in a sluggish state, on
rather easier terms.
Beans and peas—the supplies of which were small, fully
supported previous currencies.
Flour moved off heavily, at about Monday's quotations.
ARRIVALS THIS WEEK..
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
Eng1i5h........ 430 l 2,470 920 llO sack .
Irish.. . 320
8,630 2,380 1 21,870 1,610 bls.
100 sacks

BOROUGH HOP.

Buyers operate with great caution, and only to meet ac-
tual requirements. In order to effect sales of any extent,
lower rates must bo submitted to.

This being; Derby-day, the streets of the metro-
polis, at an early hour, began to assume the usual
bustle and activity attendant on this great event.
The House of Commons, even in the midst of a
Ministerial crisis, adjourned in order to allow the
" collective wisdom" of the United Kingdom to
take part in the metropolitan holiday ; and the
great International Exhibition, the Crystal Palace,
and in fact all the attractions of London were, com-
paratively speaking, deserted for a trip to the ver-
dant downs of Surrey. Anticipating the real or
imaginary wants of the thousands who betake
themselves to Epsom, the shopkeepers of London
have been unceasing in their exertions to meet the
demand thus created. Not a shop window, for the
last week or two, could be passed without seeing
something very conspicuously labelled " For the
Derby," or " For the Races." Four-horse drags,
open barouches, and covered vans, were advertised
in all directions, and from the number seen on the
road the demand must have been quite equal to the
supply. The great movement of the Epsom pil-
grims commenced at about four o'clock this
morning, at which early hour all the pathways
leading out of town were marked with dark mov-
ing lines of pedestrians, laden with the most extra-
ordinary variety of burthens, and the roadways
were equally thronged with patient donkeys,
who only required time to get over as much
ground as the most agile of Derby racers. Poor
Neddy was laden with all manner of movables,
such as only could belong to the costermonger
population, who seemed bent on securing those
admirable places for viewing the great event, near
the ropes, which, as the time for starting arrives,
are eyed with envy by those who have paid their
guinea for admittance to the Grand Stand.
Never, since the now almost forgotten days of
coaching, has that well-known and far-famed house►
the Spread Eagle, Gracechurch-street, been so com-
pletely inundated with persons anxious for con-
veyance to the races. The street was for some time
positively impassable from the number of vehicles,
of all descriptions, congregated there for that
purpose.

The facilities offered by the railway companies
afforded us an opportunity, previous to leaving town,
to take a peep at the great southern centre of bustle
and confusion—the Elephant and Castle. Every-
thing seemed to muster there. Post-chaises, that
had done duty any time these months past as pigeon
roosts in the worst inn's worst yard, came clatter-
ing along, the horses, warranted three parts blood
and the other part corn, indulging in the imperfect
recollection of a canter, a feeble reminiscence that
the postillion fostered to the utmost by rising in
his saddle now and then, as if the animal really
galloped. Next arrived some swell drags, crowded
outside with fast young men, and inside with all
kinds of missiles, with which to pelt the lieges
coming back ; there, too, aspiring clerks assembled
and donned blue veils, preparatory to going quietly
down by rail ; and there were also some young
fellows who had so anticipated matters as even thus
early in the morning to require a helping hand to
steady them in their passage to the knife-board on
the roofs of the omnibuses.

WHITECHAPEL.
The supply of meat is moderate, and the trade rules inae •
tive, as follows :
Beef, from 2s 6d to 4s Od ; mutton, 38 Od to 4s 4d ; lamb
68 4d to 6s 8d ; veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; and pork, 3s 8d to
4s 10d per 81bs by the carcase.

April 5, May 3,
1862. 1862. Increase Decrease.
Bank of England 20,226,510 21,214.341 986,138
Private Banks 3,207,976 3,373,774 166,798
Joint-stock Banks 2,934,891 3,065,896]-13 ,003
Total in England 26,369,379 27, 53,011'1,283,632
Scotland. 3,806,380 3.066,075 159,695
Ireland 5,788,249 5,859,325 71,076
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United Kingdom. 35,964,0 f 8137,478,411 1,514,403 (

At this point also was held the annual meeting
of superannuated mail coaches, and this year the
attendance was more numerous than usual. The
appeals on their behalf by the individuals who had
had the moral courage to again produce the relics of
a bygone but very pleasant age, were eloquent in
the extreme; but the most tempting offers of front
seats, or the most liberal suggestions by way of
pecuniary arrangements, offered no inducement to
counterbalance the comfort, speed, and certainty of
the rail. People still remember the first break at
at Kennington Turnpike, the giving way of the
traces at the Swan, the constantly recurring thirst
of the coachman at every roadside public-house, the
imminent risk of upset in the narrow road leading
to the Downs, and the not at all unclmmon contin-
gency of arriving on the course just as the crowd
were most triumphantly cheering the winner of the
blue riband of the turf, whilst the police are most
unceremoniously dragging off to the lock-up those
industrial and active young gentlemen who have
peculiar notions about right and wrong, and who
imagine they have just as much as right to your
watch, purse, or pocket handkerchief, as you have
yourself.

And, as compared with the month ending the 4th May,
1861, the above returns show an increase of £1,027,881
in the circulation of notes in England, and an increase of
£341,151 in the circulation of the United Kingdom :
On comparing the above with the fixed issues of the seve-
ral banks the following is the state of the circulation :
The English private banks are below their fixed
issue .................................... £1,025,866
The English joint-stock banks are below their
fixed issue ................................ £236,461

Total below fixed issue 1n England.... £1,025,327
The Scotch banks are above their fixed issue .. £1,216,804
The Irish banks are below their fixed issue .... £495,169
The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of Eng-
land in both departments during the month ending the 30th
usunwittshofthspeesca:e
month, and an increase of
April was £16,974756, being an increase of £412,334 as
period last year,
held by the Scotch
and Irish banks during the month ending the 3d April :
£ compared39hle9,BB4 followingwv with
e when
aret
compared
ahpperaeii:doo
Gold and silver held by the Scotch banks £2,647,863
Gold and silver held by the Irish banks 2,250,921

Thanks, however, to Mr. Slight, of the Brighton,
and Mr. Clarke, of the South-Western, for by their
arrangements the " rail" has been brought to suit
" the book" of everybody. The fares charged,
though far from high, ensures respectability, and
the most timid of people may safely venture to the
Derby by the rail, certain to meet nothing worse
than members of Parliament, select members of the
prize ring, intelligent foreigners studying the man-
ners of the English, and those well-trussed, well-
braced, well-dressed unmistakeable personages who
go to the Derby as a matter of business, and who
under a smiling exterior perhaps conceal consider-
able doubts as to whether the evening will see
them millionaires or paupers.

as Compared with the
return, and oaf dlec6rle9,
a6se6of £70,901 when compared
Z 4,798,774
Beingre
pvious a decrease
with the corresponding period of last year.

The confusion, crowding, and inconvenience that
existed in former times at the London Bridge, Vic-
toria, and Waterloo stations, on the present occa-
sion totally disappeared, and in its place you had
order and regularity of the best description. Of
cause you enter the station in a state not quite as
cool as a cucumber, as on the road you have been
calculating the difficulties through which you will
have to pass ; but your fears prove altogether
groundless, for the orderly official stationed at the
platform directs you civilly to the carriages ; but
every now and then, when the attendance is rather
too numerons, he calls out, "Forward, gentlemen,
for Epsom—plenty of room lower down," and
accordingly the crowd hurry on in the best pos-
sible good humour, which is not disturbed by
your having to put up with a seat in a third,
although you have taken your ticket for the first-
class carriage, and having for your companions a
number of unmistakeable " betting men," some
gentlemen pugilists, and three or four novices in
the same eminent profession. However, on the
Derby-day you have made up your mind not to
stick at trifles, so you make the best of the situa-
tion, and while away the comparative tedium of the
journey by meditation on the changes the events of
the day will occasion, your reflections only being
interrupted by the loud snorting of the iron horse
that is conveying you to the scene of action.
As you near Epsom the fact is vividly brought
to your mind by the preparations that require to
be made for quitting the carriage. One gentleman
coolly pulls out a rather fast-looking neck-tie,
which he arranges on his person with the greatest
precision and nicety; whilst another takes from a
very neat little paper parcel a shirt-collar of fault-
less whiteness, with which he performs a similar
operation. At this moment the train begins to
slacken its pace, and in a few minutes after the
rush from the carriages is something tremendous.
You enter the town of Epsom, and to
your great astonishment you find the inhabi-
tants all pursuing their worldly calling with
the greatest possible coolness, as certainly from
their demeanour you would never imagine
that the greatest horse-race in the world was about
to take place but a mile or so from the town, but
this is no doubt to be attributed to the fact that the
thousands of pedestrians who pass through the
place take all their capital with them to the race-
course. Before you can well say you have cleared
slight of course at first,
the town, your difficulty,
commences, and as far as real work is concerned
you seem considerably further off the Downs than
when you left Victoria Station. You follow a
streaming procession of pedestrians down a
long and very dusty lane, but the perfume
from the hedges, the singing of the birds, the
bright green fields and the gambols of the urchins
by the wayside make up a scene that is perfectly
delightful. With what zest your thorough Lon-
doner takes the first f.ew stiles, and how manfully
he
pulls" up the ; but presently the rising
ground begins to tell its tale, and the pace which
was brisk and elastic at first begins to slacken.
The little hills all become large ones, and the Grand
Stand, which you fondly imagined was within a
very short distance from you, seems as if it receded
by magic as you advanced. Having applied your hand_

FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday morning a fright-
ful occurrence took place at 19, Queen-street, Queen-square
Westminster. It appears that Mr. Richard Macdougall
Barrett, an enrolled Volunteer, residing at the above house,
had returned home from attending the drill of his corps,
and took upon himself to clean the second-floor windows,
and while so engaged slipped and fell to the ground,
striking the area railings in his descent. He was picked
up, bleeding and insensible, and taken to Westminster
Hospital, when it was found that his skull was fractured,
he expired shortly after his admission. The deceased was
formerly attached to the 6th Fusileers, and fought with that
regiment at Lucknow, Cawnpore, aad throughout the
Indian mutiny. Express.