The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-08 00:00:00

it consistent with reason or justice that, when the law
allows two persons to pay but sixpence for any distance
under one mile, if two more are added to the party, each
of the new corners will pay double the fare of the two
original passengers ? Surely the House of Lords will
not pass such an absurdity, even if the Lower House
should persevere in it, and be the laughing-stock
of the kingdom.—l am,tsir, your constant, reader,
a" .

was referred to in the report of an inquest on an
unfortunate young woman named MARY ANNE
BARNARD and of her child, which appeared
in our impression of Thursday, nor can
we do more than barely allude to the per-
formances of the porter of the workhouse of
named edof PhHilsuPwifJe—AcKth-
St. Martin-in-the-Fields,
an unfortunate
sort, who applied for shelter. These matters
may yet be investigated, and we shall ab-
stain from comment until it is ascertained
whether the authorities intend to pass over these
matters sub silentio, or to institute the inquiries
and adopt the measures which the circumstances
appear to demand. Sufficient, however, has ap-
peared to warrant a hope that an intimation may
be conveyed to the officials throughout the differ-
ent Unions, that " flintiness of heart" is not the
highest qualification for office, and that there is
something of even greater importance than the
saving of a few pence in the poor's-rates. A
salutary lesson has been given, by which we trust
that they may at length be warned before further
deaths are occasioned through similar indifference
to human suffering.

burden of a costly annexation, or of a disgraceful
termination, as in Affghan, of the territory we
had conquered, are amongst the fruits of this
irresponsibility so obstinately retained.

Now, the absurdity of this clause is, of course, at
the first hasty glance quite apparent. Two cabs hired
by four people for sixpence less than those four
people would be compelled to pay if they only
took one cab for their accommodation ! Never
was there attempted by the House of Commons
any more blundering arrangement ! The Cab
question is to be considered once more in the
Lower House this evening. Let this silly clause
in the newly-planned enactment be revised, there-
fore, in time, or the public will be suffering
another grievance in the matter, if have
yet more irritating than any they have
yet experienced. Instead of each additional pas-
senger beyond the first two corners being charged
at the rate of another sixpence a mile, it were
only fair play to make them pay each at the rate
(per mile) of threepence. So that the cab-drivers
erson "sixpence' a mile
might demand for one p
—for two persons "sixpence",for three " nine_
pence"—for four a " sbilling. In this manner
simple justice would be done to all parties con-
cerned, while the clause referred to would at once
I be simplified.

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]
Either Sir CHARLES WOOD and the House of
Commons have carried a most unrighteous Bill
for India, or Mr. CARDWELL and his Amalgama-
tion Committee suggest a most unrighteous enact-
ment for Railway Companies. The general ability
of the Committee's report is confessed, it is worthy
to rank with the very able one made to the
American Congress which it quotes with approba-
tion ; but there is one resolution which stands
pre-eminent_ for good or evil amongst the practical
ones,—we mean the 9th. It enacts—
" That every Board of Directors should be required to
register with the railway department, some one person,
to whom should be delegated the chief authority over all
the external discipline of the company and its servants ;
also for every part of the line, some person should be
registered as resident engineer ; and for every portion of
the locomotive stock some person as locomotive engineer."

The spirit of " Beadledom" is again rampant.
The mantle of the illustrious BUMBLE appears to
have descended with unimpaired virtue, not only
on his more immediate successors, but on all per-
sons " parochal" offices, on the gate-
porters pothe various Bastiles, and even on the
t e
rs holdingoof
superintendents of the public baths and wash-
houses. Nay, more, the modern officials seem to
have followed the example of their great predeces-
sor, and to have secured the assistance of conge-
nial help-mates, of legitimate rivals to Mrs. CORNEY,
to stimulate their drooping energies, and encou-
rage them to the stern and unflinching discharge
of the duties of their respective situations. It
might be supposed that an insolent brutality, a
reckless indifference to the sufferings of the miser-
able creatures whose exigencies require instant
and suitable relief, was the chief, if not the only,
qualification looked for in candidates for employ-
ment under the several unions in the Metropolis
and throughout the country; and, if so, we must
congratulate the guardians on the efficient ser-
vices which they have been so fortunate as to

Now we are not about at present to discuss
these resolutions as to their practicability ; but
one thing seems to be universally acknow-
ledged, that the principle of the one just recited
is thoroughly sound. That principle is responsi-
bility. It is desired that if accidents occur by
carelessness or mismanagement, those who have
charge of the legal inquiry may know whose
guilt or innocence is to be inquired into ; who
ought to be brought to trial when there is suspi-
cion of misconduct ; and who ought to bear the
penalty if misconduct be proved. It is desired
that one official shall not have power to shuffle
his delinquencies off to a second, and he to a
third, and all to the want of due concert
between them, and so forth, till the public
and juries are left standing aghast at some
palpable and avoidable error, for which, how-
ever, no one is responsible. Such is the
object of the resolution, and we have not yet
heard that it is objected to by Railway Boards.
If carried, the result must be that a class of first-
rate superintendents will be created ; since not
only would Boards refuse to entrust such a charge
to any ordinary man, but hardly any one without
competent knowledge, dares expose himself to the
hazard of being found guilty of mismanagement in
his department, after a " dreadful railway acci-
dent." Now, all this is held to be excellent
policy in regard to the safety and welfare of the
one or two hundred Englishmen who suffer yearly
more or less by railway accidents. A most in-
telligent and competent Committee of the House of
Commons says the very best thing we can think of,
the only thing we can formally propose is the re-
sponsibility of some individual in each department
where causes of accident arise. The Committee
thinks that details may be nearly all confided
safely to the hands of the persons who will have to
bear all the consequences of their failure, and who
is equally sure to find his services abundantly de-
manded and remunerated if he be specially suc-
cessful. There can be no doubt of the thorough
soundness of the principle. The American Com-
mittee appealed to it. Mr. CARDWELL'S Com-
mittee does the same ; nay, every merchant,
banker, or manufacturer, every intelligent person,
in short, who has more to do than his own eyes
can watch over, is constantly acting on this

secure.
It has recently been our painful duty to direc,
public attention to the case of an unfortunate
young woman, who, through the inhumanity of
some parties connected with either the " Wallsall
Union," or the " Brewood Bastile "—as it was
appropriately termed by one of the witnesses—
was driven to attempted suicide and consummated
murder. The decided refusal to retain her child
until she got a little stronger, and the stern order
to " take the baby out, and work for it herself,"
having led to the commission of the fearful crime
for which she would have forfeited her life on the
scaffold but for the exercise in her favour of the
Royal Prerogative by our gracious Sovereign,
whose exalted station has not lessened her sym-
pathy for misfortune, even when clouded and
tarnished by guilt. Since her condemnation
another conviction for murder has taken place ;
murder directly occasioned by a similar act of in-
humanity, committed by some of the officials of
the Truro Union, and with even less excuse than
in the case of SARAH BAKER—a murder by a girl
only seventeen years of age, of a child deserted by
its parent, and cast upon the wretched young
creature who now lies in Bodmin gaol awaiting
the execution of the dreadful sentence of the law.
The case of JANE CIIENOWETH is, indeed, one
of extreme hardship. Left a helpless orphan,
without a natural protector or guardian, she had
been consigned to the tender mercies of the Poor-
law guardians and their subordinates. While re-
maining in the Truro workhouse she became ac-
quainted with a woman named ELIZABETH BEARD,
who was there delivered of an illegitimate child.
When the child was some four or five weeks old
its mother was discharged in a state of almost total
destitution, with her helpless offspring to provide
for it, as well as for herself, as she best might.
The madness of despair, which might have tempted
to a double murder, was, however, tempered by a
strong feeling of maternal affection. She could
not support her child, but she resolved to give it
a chance for life, and in place of murdering she
only deserted the poor infant. She had given it
to the unfortunate JANE CHENOWETH, whom she
met in a lodging-house at Truro, requesting her
to take care of it while " she went to procure
some food." The really destitute are always
willing to render such offices for each other. They
have little within their power, but that little they
do cheerfully. JANE CHENOWETH took the child
and kept it until the prolonged absence of
the mother and the late hour of the evening con-
vinced her that she had been imposed upon, that
the child had been abandoned, and that she was
responsible for its protection. Under such pain-
ful circumstances, she acted at first with much
prudence and discretion. She went to the near-
est police-office, and applied to the inspector on
duty for advice. He directed her to take it to
the Union. She did so, but the door was shut
in her face, and she was informed that " the child
would not be admitted without an order." She
made her weary way back to the station-house
again, to consult the inspector. By him she was
directed to the overseer, and at length obtained
the necessary order—the golden branch necessary
to charm the official Cerberus. She again went
to the workhouse, but nine o'clock had arrived,
the time having been consumed in her various
pilgrimages backward and forward to police-sta-
tion—workhouse—police-stationagain--overseer's
residence—station-house once more, and thence to
the workhouse. The balmy slumbers of the vigi-
lant porter could not be disturbed by an intruding
pauper at such an hour. She was suffered to
knock and knock at the gate, but in vain ; no
answer could be elicited from the drowsy official,
and she had to win her way again to the station-
house, where the compassionate bearing and cour-
teous demeanour of the inspector encouraged her to
hope for at least a civil answer, if not some relief.
Her confidence was well founded. Inspector
NASH, whose conduct on the occasion is deserving
of great commendation, gave her a shilling, pro-
bably from his private resources, telling her to
get a bed for the night. She went, but returned
no more. It did not appear where or how she
spent the night, but it was probably in the
open air, without any protection or shel-
ter from the weather. She was next seen with
the child about twelve o'clock the following day.
She N., , •
zneeling down drinking at a stream of
rung water. The child was crying, and she
was jeri,;„ag _
described up and down, as the witness who
her
little
had " seen her mother
hushing tie brothers and sisters." It was
in this place
that the body was subsequently
found, its head and
feet close to the body in the water, and its
transaction road. It is possible that the
melancholy
detailed by the unfortunateeereu red in the manner
criminal when inter-
rogated by an inquisitive lan _
COOT, at the New Inn. y,. a certain Mrs.
said, "The child
was very cross, and I was very tired, and ,
came there I dabbed it down in the mud and
water and went away, and left it!" The fatigue
and anxiety she had encountered had. driven her
almost to a state of phrenzy, and in the paroxysm
she committed the act, not, perhaps, intending that
the death of the child should follow. She has
been held legally liable for the act, and will
by p pal
er etu pro-
banish-
bably expiate her offence
ssibility of her
ment—we cannot conceive the po
vhom dos the moral
life being taken. But on
Is it not on thosee who thought
responsibility rest
llent jest in driving
they were performing an exce
d ob-
her from the workhouse door until she
shop
tain an order, and then pretending sleep wn she
Si
that
came armed with the Sesame--the sign
should have flung open the workhouse portals to
the afflicted sufferer and the helpless child.
We shall not now expatiate on the conduct of
Mr. FOOTE, the Superintendent of the Marylebone
Baths and W haß - 0118%3, and of his wife; which

principle.
Why, then, have the House of Commons so
completely thrown it overboard in regard to India ?
Why, if good as the maximum of protection for
a few hundreds of railway travellers, is it worth-
less for the protection of 150 millions of our
Indian fellow-subjects ? Mr. CARDWELL'S 9th
Resolution is the model on which it might be un-
dertaken to legislate, with universal approbation,
for India ; but it is on that account the severest
condemnation of Sir CHAS. WOOD'S perpetuation
of mystery and irresponsibility in Indian affairs.
So long as that country remains a dependency of
England, and so long as it is incapable of enjoy-
ing Representative Assemblies of its own, the one
thing needed is the clear responsibilty of its chief
officials to the British Houses of Parliament.
Only suppose that, as for the three chief depart-
ments of railway working, so for the principal
departments of Indian management, some
one individual were to be held respon-
sible ; were open to the interrogatories of Mr.
BRIGHT, Mr. PHILLIMORE, and Mr. BLACKETT,
were liable to have a Parliamentary Committee
sitting upon their conduct, and to have a Blue
Book and report published for Indian Reformers
and newspaper editors to wade into with no par-
ticular prepossessions in favour of officials ; as-
suredly, in that case, questions of internal improve-
ments and external wars, of the administration of
justice and the collection of revenue, of education
also, and employment of natives, would soon all
of them put on a very different face. Their pre-
sent one would not be long presentable to the pub-
lic. There would be some one to blush, some one,
if things went too far, or wrongs remained too
long unredressed, to bear a heavier penalty than
blushing. Grievous it is to think that, for
the present, this cannot be done. "It is too
late in the session." Not too late to fix
Sir CHARLES WOOD'S salary at 5,000/. a-year,
but much too late to fix him with responsi-
bility. He will still fight from behind the shield
of the Honourable Member for Honiton, and the
Honourable Member will shelter himself behind
the Double Government and the Crown nominees.
The Board of Directors and the Board of Control,
Sir CHARLES WOOD and Sir JAMES HOGG, will con-
tinue their open and secret correspondence and
conferences. No one will be bound to answer for
anything; officials will enjoy their salaries, and
directors their patronage ; but India will be
mulcted with wasted millions, and harassed with
every species of mal-administration, while Presi-
dents, Secretaries, and Chairmen of Directors will
be enabled to say, "It is no doing, or no fault,

of mine."
Hardly has this undeserving bill escaped from
the Commons, when the clouds begin to thicken.
Indian natives, convened in public meeting by
the Sheriff, condemn the precipitancy of our legis-
lation. They reiterate, and thereby authorise, all
the complaints of the Indian Reformers thus far ;
and they show happily that India begins to be
aware that its demands, duly, temperately, and
manfully expressed, will be welcomed by a large
and effective party in the House of Commons.
Our Cabinet may be assured that it will not find
it easy long to work their bill in quiet. When
India is fully aware that peaceful discussion is a
mighty power with our Legislature, there will
likely enough be plenty of it. Then follows Mr.
COBDEN'S vigorous pamphlet on the Burmese War,
eliciting from their own Blue Books the irre-
of d
futable facts which convict the authors of the
out the Rouse
i
War of as gross abuse of their veiled and
Irresponsible authority, as the entire press has
already
eplorable
convicted
incapacity.t he
chief conductors
It was
eas
yo f
tthe war,count
ono
iiM:f. CpoeßbonuE N:
butS 3 motion Ont ioo n
count respect-
; p eCt
out
can bury in oblivion the disgraceful facts which
-
: ino cr the annexation
he has disinterred and placed in daylight ; nor
can any plausibilities of Sir CHARLES Woon---no,
nor even the eloquence of a MACAULAY—aIter
the plain fact, that
we owe the Burmese war to
Double Government and divided authority. That
two hundred thousand pounds a month, even-
tually to come on British shoulders) and the

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, 185 3.

MONEY MARKET

AND

CITY INTELLIGENCE.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.
(From the Oficial List.)
Business done.

PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto New, 1852, 4i per Cent 99
Grenada Bonds, Deferred
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto 44 per Cent.
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent 95 6
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 47s
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. 23i i i
Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun. 6a

Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 2 per Cent.
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates 974 8

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of cotton at Liverpool on Saturday
were estimated at 5,000 bales, of which 1,000 Ame-
rican were taken for export. The market was
heavy without alteration in prices. The sales com-
prised 4,000 American, 250 Pernam and Maran-
ham at 61d. to 7d., 70 Bahia at 6/d. to 60., 200
Egyptian at Old. to Bd., and 500 Surat at 4d. to
40. per lb. Railway Shares continued dull at
lower prices.
The price of wheat is down 2s. per qr. this
morning. New barley from Kent has been brought
to market and sold at 395.
The private letters received from the United
States, and reaching to the 27th ultimo, are of an
exceedingly favourable complexion. All classes
were highly prosperous ; and although specie had
been shipped rather freely to England, there was
an abundant supply. The grain markets were
duller, and the news from this side about deficient
crops seemed scarcely to be relied on.
The New York accounts show the excess of im-
ports over exports, during the week ending July
23, to be 3,260,446 dots., being larger than any
previous week this year.
The Californian accounts are very satisfactory.
From the interior the news is encouraging as re-
gards mining operations. A statement respecting
the population had been published, and from this
it appears that during the six months ending the
27th of June, the number of passengers that arrived
at San Francisco by sea was 23,741, during the
same time 14,326 left, making the addition to
the population 9,415.
From the continent the intelligence received is
satisfactory : the private advices from leading
houses at Paris and Vienna mention that the pros-
pects of peace were more re-assuring. It is felt
that when once any certainty exists upon this
point, there will be a markedjrestoration of public
confidence, and an immense relief to all who have
heavy engagements open.
The Honourable East India Company has again
raised by fd. per rupee its terms for bills on
Bengal, Madras, and Bombay.
Public securities have been particularly buoyant
this morning, and the serious reaction which oc-
curred on Saturday has been entirely recovered,
and the current prices have gone even higher.
Consols have been quoted 974 to 98k for transfer,
and 97k to 98 for account. The New Three-and-
a-Quarter per Cents. have ranged from 100 k to
101 k, and the Three per Cents 981 to /. Bank
Stock has been supported at 2271 to 228. Ex-
chequer Bills are 2s. dis. to ls. prem. India Stock
is at 259.
Foreign Securities have been all higher. Mexi-
can Bonds have realised 26 to 1, and Grenada
Deferred 8/, and since 9/. Russian are up to 117
and 118 for the 5 per Cents., and to 101 and 1011
for the 41 per cents. Dutch 4 per Cents are at 97
to 98. Spanish Deferred Bonds have been quote
23/ to 1, and the Certificate is at 6g.
The railway meetings announced are the fol-
lowing :-
COMPANY. DATE. PLACE, &C.
Belfast and County Down Aug. 18, Belfast.
Birk., Lane., & Ches. Junc Aug. 13, Birkenhead.
Buckinghamshire
Cork and Bandon
Direct London and Portsm Aug. 26, London Tavern.
Eastern Counties
East Indian.
Great Northern
Gt. Stbrn. &Westrn.,lreland Aug. 27, Dublin.
Great Western
Lancashire and Carlisle Aug. 31, Lancaster.
London and Blackwall Aug. 17, London Tavern.
London and North-Western Aug. 12, Euston Station.
London and South-Western Aug. 10, York-road.
Loughar
Mane., Sheffield, & Lincoln Aug. 31, Manchester.
Maryport and Carlisle
Middlesboro' and Redear Aug. 10, Darlington.
Midland
Newry and Enniskillen Aug. 16, Guildhall-coffeeh
North Devon Aug. 24, London Tavern.
Northern and Eastern Aug. 18, Bishopsgate-stn.
Royston and Hitchin Aug. 13, St. Helen's-place
Shrewsbury and Hereford
South Yorkshire . Aug. 26, Sheffield.
Stockton and Darlington ... Aug. 10, Darlington.
Thames Haven Aug. 31, London Tavern.
Waterford and Limerick Aug. 30, Waterford.
Wear Valley
Wharfdale Aug. 19, Skipton.
The Railway Share Market is extremely active,
and buying seems to have re-commenced in ear-
nest. This is, no doubt, partly due to the closing
of " Bear" operations, but we may expect the pub-
lic to invest also, if the political news continues
good. Great Northern have advanced Ito 2,
Caledonian, 1 to 1k ; Midland, 1, and the other
English lines in proportion. Lyons have risen
about 21., Strasburgh V. to 1/. 10s., and Sambre
and Meuse I to -.
Gold Mine Shares have been a little firmer, but
are not in much favour. The Land Companies are
brisk. Australian Agricultural are up 1 to 2.
Banks are dull,

Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced. Annuities 9BRiiia
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities • 97i 8 7i 81 7i 8
New 31 per Cent. Annuities lOOl 1001. 11 1
India Stock
Consols for Account 11th August 971 8 4 74
Exchequer Bills, ld.
£lOOO.
1:500
Small 2 d 1 p