The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-24 00:00:00

THE LA I E COLLISION ON THE SOUTH-
EAS IERN RAILWAY.

I Among the passengers in the train which met with
the accident at Croydon was the Rev. Maynard Currie,
of Landlin-park, near Hythe, in Kent, a clergyman of
the Church of England, who, with Miss Lyndon, the
governess of his family, was in the first class carriage
nearest to the engine. The rev, gentleman intending to
visit the Crystal Palace, had taken with him six little
girls, purposing to give them a treat, but these he had
placed: in a second class carriage just behind, and they
sustained nu injury. Mr. Currie and Miss Lyndon
were less fortunate. Mr. Currie had just remarked
that he was sorry he had come out that day,
as the excessive speed at which the train was pro-
ceeding made him fear an accident would happen,
when the collision took place. The account that
Miss Lyndon gives is that she recollects the car.
riage in which she was seated flying into the air,
and then coming down again, so that she was head
foremost. She then lost all consciousness. Some idea
may be formed of the serious injuries received by this
lady from the fact, that, at first, she was placed along-
side the remains of the poor man Gammon, it having
been concluded from her perfect inanimate state that life
was extinct. She, however, in time exhibited signs of
returning animation, and was removed without delay to
the Crown Tavern, where she still lies. It is somewhat
singular that both Mr. Currie and herself sustained
almost exactly similar injuries, both, in addition to
severe bruises and coneussion, having had the nose and
an eye much injured. Mr. Currie's clothes were com-
pletely studded with the splintered wood. When
restored to consciousness he was conveyed home. Each
thought the other had been killed on the spot, and re-
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found that the blood on her dress had poured from the
wounds of her deceased companion, Gammon.

'HE TURKISH LOAN.

.The anticipated letter from M. Drouyn de l'Huys
on behalf of the French Government with regard to
the Turkish loan has been obtained, and is precisely in
the same terms as that already furn►shed by Lord Cla-
rendon. Meanwhile, a first warning has been given to
the Pays for lending itself to the attempts of speculators,
who are also apparently busy on this side, to circulate
idle statements with the view of influencing the market.
It was recently pointed out in the Times that the
Russian war, so far from having been a cause of
financial damage to England, had operated as a
check to a new spirit of inflation, which had just
begun to manifest itself, and which, if allowed to
pursue its course, would have ended in loss far
greater than the expenditure now in progress. To corn-
plete the view of the satisfactory course of events, and
of the solid prospects of the national credit, some other
considerations must be added. When war was first de-
dared, it was considered that in any case one of its evils
would be a serious increase of the public debt, and the
fact that, notwithstanding the partial clamour which was
raised for an immediate creation of fresh Consols after a
heavy fall had already occurred, the necessity for this step
has been wholly avoided seems a point of congratulation
for which the most sanguine could scarcely have hoped. But
it remains to be seen that the circumstances under which
this result has been realised are of a character greatly
more gratifying than the world has generally supposed.
The possibility that, though the sacrifices to which they
now cheerfully submit, the war may be carried to an
end without the burden of debt being augmented, would
be a sufficient reward far the people of England to con•
template. They are ably, however, to recall that their
present efforts were not needed to avert an increase of
the national liabilities, but simply to prevent the prospect
being destroyed of an early and large diminution of
them. The annual charge for the funded debt at this
time is 27,443,711/., but at periods between now and the
sth of Jan. 1860—that is to say, little more than five
years—it will undergo a reduction to 24,236,2111. In
the course of six weeks the stock known as Three-
and-a-Quarter per Cents. will become converted into
" New Three per Cents.," guaranteed for 20 years, by
which an annual saving will be effected of 600,0001.
In October, 1859, annuities expire to the amount of
306,0001., and in January, 1860, the extinction of the
Long Annuities, &c., will involve a saving of 1,599,5004
while meanwhile there are sundry smaller claims of
tontine and other life annuities, which it is estimated
will fall in to the extent of 702,0001. A. total reduction
is thus arrived at of 3,207,5001., and consequently a re-
sult which, in its effect on the yearly taxation, will be
the same as if 107,000,0001, of Three per Cent. Debt
had been paid off. In 1867, moreover, a further relief
will take place in the expiration of the annuity held by
the Bank of England, and usually termed the "dead
weight," amounting to 585,7001., or the equivalent of an
annual payment of 19,520,000/ Three per Cents. Hence
it will be seen that, notwithstanding the predictions of
some foreign writers as to the ruin that was to fall upon
Great Britain whenever she should find herself compelled
to resort to hostilies, she is in a position that would enable
herduring the next 13years to borrow nearly 130,000,0001.
or at the rate of 10,000,000/. per annum, without pl icing
herself, as far as annual taxation is concerned, in less
favourable circumstances than she occupies at this mo-
ment. It must be remarked, too, that although it is a
common impression that the present generation have
failed to avail themselves sufficiently of the advatithges
of a long peace in reducing the national obligations, a
reference to the statistics of the subject for the past
30 years will show that, while mere might undoubtedly
have been done, there is no ground for heavy reproach.
The principal of the debt, it is true, has been reduced
only to the extent of about 41 per cent., but the annual
amount payable for interest has been reduced nearly 8
per cent., notwithstanding the emancipation loan of
15,000,000/. in 1835, and the Irish famine loan of
8,000,00G1. in 1847. Under these circumstances there
seems nothing more than is natural in the prices which
the British funds are now found to maintain, or in the
fulfilment of the opinion ventured upon in March last.
that the range of Consols throughout the worst periods
of the coming struggle might be such as to excite con-
gratulation and surprise.—Times.

JREMORNE GARDENS.—Mr. Simpson's annual benefit
,akes place this day. The preparations for it are upoa
a most liberal and extended scale, in which the whole
resources of the establishment, aided by several special
novelties, will be employed. It will be the grand event
of the season, Lnd we trust Mr. Simpson will have
a bumper indeed. The season has, we fear, been
hitherto far from prosperous, owing to the unsettled
state of the weather.
FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday, between one and two
o'clock, as a fine little boy was crossing Drury-lane, near
the Olympic Theatre, he fell down, and before he could
be extricated the wheels of a waggon had passed over
his head. The child was conveyed to King's College
Hospital,
theosp rmiteaal,buatn h.
e was quite dead. No blame is attached
to

DETERMINED ACTS OF SELF-DESTRUCTION.—Yester-
day forenoon, Mr. Baker, the coroner, received infor-
mation at his residence, Chester-terrace, Regent's-park,
of the follovl'ing acts of self-destruction :—The first was
hnOunsethneflsstth.
inst.,
thtee d by
wasa mannamed
admitted into the Drew.hewor
Matthew, Bethnal-green, having attempted self-destruc-
tion with a table-knife, while in a state of fever, and
with which he cut his throat. He was recovering, but
on Tuesday forenoon he died from the effects of the in-
jury. He was 58 years of age. In the other, case, a
man of the name of James Gillett, aged 29, a weaver,
who was living at No. 1, Alley place, Bow, destroyed
himself in a similar way on Monday night, and was
found by his landlady. He had been in a depressed state
of mind for some time past.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT BANKSlDE.—Yesterday morning,
between ten and eleven o'clock, two boys were playing
on the platform at Bankside, Southwark, near the iron
bridge, when one of the children in playing pushed the
other, a boy about ten years, on one side, and he fell
into the river. The boat belonging to the steam floating
engine was immediately put off to the spot, and the
drags of the Royal Humane Society were used for some
not
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time, but the unfortunate child could not be found.
Who the deceased was, or where he came from, could
BETH.—Yesterday afternoon a fire broke
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No. 143, Regent-street, Lambeth-walk. The workmen
were employed in the building at the time of the out-
break, so that immediate assistance was forthcoming,
but in spite of every exertion, and the early attendance
of the firemen with a strong force, the flames spread with
great rapidity, igniting successively the saw mills, the
boiler house, and three workshops, covering a space of
ground nearly 100 feet square. The whole of these pre-
mises, with the stock-in-trade, and the costly machinery,
were totally destroyed. Unfortunately, Mr.l?fillaml
was only insured to the amount of 5001., which it is un-
derstood will not more than half cover his loss.
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SUSPICIOUS DEATH.—On Tuesday evening, about eiz
o'clock, as Mr. Mayhew, of No. 6, Chester-terrace,
RA-
gent's-park, was about to pass into his
excited upon
He took it up, when he waspainfully
ife sent for Hawkins,
seeing the body of an
entrance,infant
when, upon un-
observed a bundle upon one of the steps of the doorway.
gatekeeper of Chester-terrace
Dr. Gill, who resides
made and beautiful female infant.
that the in-
was called. He stated
adjoining the gate,
long
dead, and that it was about 3
tying the bundle, there was discovered the body of a finis
font had not been
was unable to say, without a post-
months old. He it had been poisoned
unfortunate infant was naked, and was
suffocated. The
and blanket. The
fine napkin body was
tied up in a
modem examination whether or
taken
DEATH OF LILLYWHITE.—The admirers of the manly
game of cricket will be sorry to learn that this favourite
son of the bat, the ball, and the wicket, is no more.
After a long and successful innings cholera has at last
.‘ caught him out." He died at his house in Islington
on Tuesday, of the prevailing epidemic. The deceased
was much respected by the cricketing world, who gave
him
the the title of "g he Nonpareil." Lilly white introduced
round bowlin
A SIGNIFICANT FACT has just transpired at Berlin.
The king has ordered that a marble tablet, with an
inscription in letters of gold, shall be placed at the spot
where the first soldier fell in 1848 from the fire of the
insurgents. This proceeding has given rise to some:,
protestation's, but which have led to several-persons
being arrested or summoned to appear before the
magistrates,