The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-14 00:00:00

THR ILFORD MURDER.

The Petty Sessions Court, removed from the Angel
Inn to the gaol of Ilford, was on Friday forenoon very
much crowded by persons who believed that Charles
Saunders would be brought before the bench and wit-
nesses examined against him.
Soon after the magistrates assembled at the prison on
Friday, the chairman told the witnesses that as the pri-
soner would not be brought up that day their attendance
would not be necessary. Should they be required by
the bench, due notice should be sent to them. They
were, however, to bear, in mind that should the pri-
soner be tried on the coroner's warrant, they would be
wanted in London at the next session of the Central
Criminal Court. He (the chairman) and his brother
magistrates had decided upon remanding the prisoner
until they should receive instructions from the Secre-
tary of State for the Home Department, to whom he
would write on Monday. If the noble secretary did not
think a committal by the magistrates necessary, to back, as
it were, the coroner's warrant, then the magistrates would
not re-cpen the charge against the prisoner ; but if Lord
Palmerston did think a magisterial committal requisite,
the prisoner would be brought before them swat week,
and evidence gone into. In the interim (this was said
in answer tota question from the police inspector) the
prisoner was to remain in that prison in the safe custody
of its keeper.
We were informed by the police that the prisoner
(Saunders) is either insane or feigns to be so. One con-
stable and the chaplain deem him really mad ; others
who watch him say that he simulutes madness, and that
in a slovenly manner. On Friday evening one of the
warders asked him how is fingers were (they got out
whilst he was in the act of cutting his victim's throat),
when ho replied, "He be if he cared—it was no
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of so-called moral and religious tracts.

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process of underwriting as intelligible as possible we may
a vessel of the class
A 1, registered for 7 or 10 years be
valued a 20,000/.
or 30 000/ , ~ a policy is effected upon
her, and the owners o- their brokers go among their
friends at Lloyd's, and cee at what rate she
can be in-
sured. lithe voyage be a distant one, or the season of
fthe year considered dangerous, the rate
will mostmate
mate-
rially vary. Thus at one time, a premium of 11. is. or
21. 2s. per cent, might be taken, and at another time the
underwriter would perhme not be inclined to do busi-
ness under 31. 3s. or 4/. 4S. per cent., it is not only de-
pending on the class of ship, but the cargo she is likely
to carry, and the port for which she is bound. These
are all the considerations which the underwriter most
carefully weighs in his mind before he takes any part or
risk in adventure of the sort. On a vessel of 20,000/. or
30,0001. value, the policy of insurance might be divided
among as many as a dozen underwriters, including
some at Liverpool and Glasgow. And it, very
often
happens that the Liverpool and Glasgow
people
will insure their ships
at London, and vice versa
This will account for the statement occasionally to be.
seen in the newspapers, " that notwithstanding
the vessel was a London trader, the greater part
of the loss will fall upon the underwriters of
Liverpool and Glasgow.. When a vessel continues
absent after the expected date of arrival, and no news
has been received of her, the premium of insurance will
advance considerably, and then the business resolves it-
self into a mere speculative transaction. Some of the
members of the room snap at this business, but it does
not often prove profitable. The ill-fated President was
"done" at a very high premium in the room, and, up to
the latest moment of hope, persons were found willing
enough " to take a few thousands of her at a long price."
When bad weather has occurred, either on the coast or
abroad, the underwriters at Lloyd's make the most
anxious investigation of the books and the lista received,
to trace, by every possible means, the result of their
risks. The life of the underwriter, like the stock-specu-
lator, is one of vast anxiety, the events of the day often
raising his expectations to the highest, or depressing
them to the lowest pitch; and years are often spent in
the hoped-for acquisition of that which he never obtains.
Among the old stagers of the room there is often strong
antipathy expressed against the insurance of certain
ships ; but we don't recollect it being followed out to
such an extent as in the case of one vessel. She was a
steady trader, named after one of the most venerable
members of the room; and it was a curious coincidence
that he invariably refused to " write her" for " a single
line." Often he was joked upon the subject, and pressed
to do a little on his name-sake; but he as frequently de-
clined, shaking his head in a doubtful manner. One
morning the subscribers were reading the "double
lines," or the losses, and among them was this identical
ship, which had gone to pieces, and become a total
wreck.—The City.
A TRIP ON THE PANAMA RAILWAY.—A motley
crowd of passengers landed from the Sierra Nevada, and
crowded to the railway cars, on the morning of the 2d
of October. Here was the owner of a Californian saw-
mill, with his wife, sister, and six children—there a
learned judge. In other spots might be seen a crowd
of rough lumber men from the pine forests of Maine,
going to seek their fortunes in the far west ; New York
tradesmen and merchants going to see friends, or to
attend some business in San Francisco ; broken-down
soldiers from the Mexican war going on no busi-
ness at all ; an engineer with his old father, a septuage-
narian, and large family ; a party of Englishmen en-
gaged to work a silver mine in the mountains of the
Sierra Nevada ; a young German with a daguerrotype
of his lady-love, bound to the " diggings," to make a
fortune previous to his marriage ; with many others, all
bustling to and fro on the platform under a burning
sun, and jostling each other most unceremoniously. At
length all was ready, the whistle sounded, the ears
started, and away we went, plunging each minute deeper
and deeper into the thick pestilential forest, whose rank
vegetation rises from a black unwholesome morass. Lofty
trees, whose age may be counted by centuries, creepers
of every description, flowers of all hues, palms, plantains,
and every kind of tropical plant, crowded here one upon
another in the thickest confusion, and as they wither and
die away, others spring up ; while the decaying matter
sends up a fever, which cleared off, by scores and scores,
the unhappy workmen of that fatal railroad. At high
noon our destination was reached, at the spot where the
railway at present ends, on the banks of Chagres river,
where a little village has risen up of five or six huts,
called Barbacoas. The railroad from Aspinwall to Bar-
bacoas is 25 miles in length, consisting only of a single
line, and reached this point about two months ago ; in
about nine months more it will have worked its way
along the banks of the Rio Chargres, Obispro, and
Grande, to Panama,--Dickens's "Household Words." I