The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-19 00:00:00

FOREIGN MAILS.

FRANKFORT, OCT. 6.—lt appears now that the
house of Rothschild here had the news of the
taking of Beyrout a week ago, but kept it strictly pri-
vate, and sent orders to all the stock exchanges to sell.
The actual operations of that house, in fact, contribute
much to the depression of the funds.
HANOVER, OCT. 11.—(From a letter.)—The prohi-
bition of the exportation and transit of horses has natu-
rally caused some sensation in the public, and great con-
sternation in the parties interested.
BERLIN, OCT. 5.—A proof of the amicable policy of
our Government towards France, and of its conviction
that a war with that Power is not at present probable,
may be found in the fact that it has allowed the expor-
tation of the horses (20,000, it is said,) purchased in
this kingdom for France. We learn from the French
papers that 3,000 of these horses have already passed
the frontiers, and that thousands more were expected.
BEssARABIA, SEPT. 27.—The division of the sth
corps of the Russian army at Taganrog, is to proceed by
forced marches to the eastern port of the Caucasus. It
is conjectured Galatejeff has met with further reverses
on the line of the Terek. An unconfirmed report
states that a province of Georgia bordering on Dag-
liestan has likewise revolted against the Russian Go-
vernment. General Goloften, who marched with some
thousand men against the insurgents, is said to have
been repulsed with loss. In Armenia, too, it is said
that much discontent and aversion to Russia prevails.
The troops for which quarters were to be kept in rea-
diness at Odessa to the 25th September had not ar-
rived. Only two brigades of the artillery of the sth
corps, which were ordered to the Crimea, and a brigade
of the 4th corps, had arrived at Odessa ; two divisions
of infantry were shortly expected.
THE HAGUE, OCT. 15.—Conformably to Art. 97 of
the fundamental law, the Hereditary Session of the
States General will be opened in this town on Monday
next.

DUTCH FUNDS.—A9sTEanAm, OCT. 16
Money. Bills,
48N 4914
Actual Debt, '2Y, per Cent
94 y, 9514
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
84 8414
Amon Syndic, 4y.', per cent
Ditto, ditto, 31,4 per cent fB 68%
Commercial Company, 4,.2 per cent
•15714 15814
Ditto (1835 and (837) 5 per cent. .... ..... 1.19 U
Loan 1837, 5 per cent.
Exchange on London, One month ll 95
Two months
Dutch Papers, Oct. 17.
BELGIAN 1. L 1 NDS—BaussELs„ OCT. 16.
Actual Debt, 21,i per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per n t :92
Loan of Thirty Millions, 3 per Cent
3 per Cent.
Loa ....., flee
n of City, 1832, 4 per Cent
Society of Commerce, 4Y.iper Cent
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent... .........
National Society
Exchange on London (short)
--Brussels Papers, Oct. 16.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, OCT. 6.
1021
five per Cents. Metalli ues ..... .......... 4
k 77
uloahnicrekr
Se
hares
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1557
—.Allgemeine Zeitung„ Oct. 13
OCT 13.
HAMBURG BORSENHALLEsBrI Money,
Austrian 5 per Cents,
Bank Shares....
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8)4
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Cent. let acne.,
Inscription, Ist Setios .......... . ...........
Russian 5 per Cent. Hop, ... . C ... 3d and 4th
99
DittoDDitttcSoh.ein Certificates ~ • . actual
p• er• :............... in; tt: ............ ............
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14-0 --
Polish Bonds .......
New ticket . . ............ ............ "
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 . 1)C ...... ............. _6-"i
Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cont...
Spanish. New . per Cents. .
r'XCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, OCT. 13.-13 4..—Two months, 13:'I6•
STOCKHOLM, OCT. 6.—Seventy-five days. 11, 40.
BERLIN. OCT. 10. —Three months, 6. 1634•
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— BeituN,Ocr. 11
Bills.
Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4b per cent. 102% 101%
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 414>er cent 99
Exchange on London, three months --"" 6 16%
—Prussian State Gazelle, Oct. 14.

We have the most sincere pleasure in stating
that very favourable accounts have been received in town
as to the state of the Countess of Leicester. It is known
that this truly estimable lady mat with a compound frac-
ture of-the leg whilst r;ding on horseback. The accident,
we understand, occurred in this way :—Her Ladyship hap..
pened to turn suddenly round in her saddle to speak to a
friend who was following, her horse unfortunately started_.
at the moment, and her Ladyship was thrown to the ground.
LORD RoLLE.---This venerable Nobleman
will attain his 90th year on Friday next, and on Monday
his Lordship's tenants, with the tradesmen and other re..
spectable inhabitants of Exmouth and its neighbourhood3
will celebrate the event 11 a dinner,

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE
SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY.

We regret to have to announce another of those
frightful and fatal accidents which have of late been so
frequent on railroads, and which occurred last evening
on the line of the South Western (Southampton) Rail-
way Company, close to the terminus at Nine Elms,
Vauxhall. From the inquiries our reporter has made
on the spot, we have reason to believe the following par-
ticulars may be relied on. The train from Southamp-
ton, which was what is called a fast one, and which
ought to have reached the terminus about five o'ciock,
did not come in until nearly a quarter to six o'clock. It
is stated to have been a remarkably heavy train, and on
its reaching within about three-quarters of a mile of the
terminus, its speed was, as usual, slackened, until it ar-
rived at the spot where the engine is customarily detached
from the train, which latter is then drawn forward to the
terminus by means of a rope. At that spot the train
arrived in perfect safety, and the engine was detached ;
but before the man whose duty it was to attach the rope
to the carriages could effect it, a frightful collision took
place, the luggage-train from Southampton arriving on
the same line full ten minutes earlier than expected, and
running with the greatest violence into the hindermost
carriages of the first train, several of which, by the
violence of the concussion, were literally smashed.
Immediately that the sound of the crash bad subsided,
the scene which ensued is beyond description. The
screams of the females, joined with the crying of chil-
dren, and the hallooing of the male passengers, were
most dreadful. Several of the passengers endeavoured
to get over the doors of the carriages, but fortunately
were prevented by their more collected companions, or
the consequences might have been still more frightful.
The train was immediately got up to the terminus, when
persons of both sexes were to be seen running along
with their faces cut and bleeding, and otherwise in-
jured, several of whom, apparently half stunned by the
concussion, instantly jumped into cabs, and were driven
to their respective residences. About twenty of the
more seriously injured were conveyed into the offices of
the Company, where their wounds and injuries were
examined and dressed by Messrs. Leech, Statham, and
Andrews, surgeons residing in the neighbourhood, who,
with their assistants,were most promptly in attendancerand
exerted themselves to the utmost to afford every assistance
to the unfortunate sufferers. Many of them had received
most severe injuries, among whom was an elegantly-
dressed female, with a child, whose nose was literally
smashed on her face, the hemorrhage from which had
completely covered the child, which gave rise to a report
that the infant had been crushed, which we are assured
was not the fact. One female, of decent appearance,
was picked up quite insensible, but without any appa-
rent marks of injury upon her. She was carried into a
private room at the station, and placed upon a table,
where the surgeons attempted to bleed her, but without
avail, life being quite extinct, and on the body being
moved blood flowed profusely from her mouth and ears,
from which it would appear that death had been caused
from the effects of severe-internal injuries which she had
received. When the confusion which had necessarily
prevailed at the moment had in some slight de-
gree abated, a young female, who had apparently
almost escaped injury, was observed in. the front office
in tears lamenting the loss of her companion, with whom
she said she had come from Walton in the last
carriage of the train ; and, on her being taken into the
room in which the body was lying, she immediately re-
cognised it as that of her unfortunate and ill-fated com-
panion. She then stated that the name of the deceased
was Elizabeth Andrews, and that of herself Sarah Co-
nolley. They were fellow-servants, and lived with a
lady named Donoghue, residing at No. 35, Connaught-
terrace, Edgware-road. Their mistress had that day
given them both a holiday to go to see Hampton-court
Palace, and they had returned by the railway, being
alone in the last carriage, little dreaming of the melan-
choly fate which awaited one of them. The distress of
mind of the p?or creature, on seeing the lifeless body of
her fellow-servant, may be better conceived than de-
scribed. Her only injury appeared a cut lip. It is,
however, almost impossible, from the short time that had
elapsed subsequent to the accident, when this account
was written, to form any accurate idea of the extent
of the injuries received, as many of the persons who
hastened home without assistance may yet feel the
effects of the accident, and that, not improbably fatally.
One lady appeared to be labouring under concussionlof
the brain.

No correct information could be obtained last night
as to the extent of damage caused to the carriages of
the train, or whether the engine attached to the lug-
gage train was injured.
The body of Elizabeth Andrews still remained at the
station last night, but whether it would continue so
until the Coroner's inquest is held, which will probably
be on Tuesday next, had not transpired. As is usual
on such occasions, a variety of reports were in circula-
tion respecting the accident, one of which was, that the
first rope on being attached to the train broke, and the
delay thereby occasioned the accident, and another,
that the notice lamp had been neglected to be placed
behind the last carriage of the train ; but as the whole
matter must necessarily shortly undergo a judicial in-
vestigation, we abstain from making any remarks,pn
the subject until the evidence is gone through.—
Observer.

(FURTHER PARTICULARS.)
On inquiry at the station yesterday we found that
this unfortunate occurrence had taken place under the
following circumstances :—A mixed train had left
Southampton at half-past one, and should have arrived
at the Nine Elms station at a quarter past five. From
the greatness of the load, this train although drawn for
half the distance by two engines, was thirty-five mi-
nutes beyond its time, and did not therefore arrive at
the London station until ten minutes before six. About
one hundred yards from the arrival-shed at Nine-
elms, the engines which had drawn it were, as usual,
detached from the train, and a rope by which the car-
riages are drawn under the arrival-shed was fast-
ened to them. Unhappily, as this operation was pro•
ceeding, the fast train, which had left Southampton at
three o'clock, and which became due at Nine Elms at
six, arrived ; and owing to the hazy state of the at-
mosphere, and the omission of the person who had
the care of the signal lamp, the driver of this train
was not aware that his passage into the shed would
meet with any obstruction, and a collision between the
trains was the consequence. It appears that at some
considerable distance from the point where the former
train had stopped for the detachment of the engine,
there is a signal lamp, at which a man is posted, whose
particular duty it is, by turning a red or green glass
over the light, in case of any obstruction at the station,
to announce to the engine, or train, which may be ap-
proaching, that there is cause, if the light be red, to stop
altogether, or, if the light be green, to approach with
great caution ; and it became his duty, on the very late
arrival of the train, which should have arrived at a quar-
ter past five, and the anticipated arrival of the fast train
at six, to give notice to the latter by displaying the red
light. We learn that this person was at his post, but
as his conduct may become the subject of investigation
hereafter, it may be better not further to notice it than
to state that the lamp was not made to exhibit any
signal of danger ; and the second train, its driver
not being able from the state of the atmosphere
to see the train before him, and having no no-
tice of any unusual obstruction, came in contact with
the hindermost carriages of the other train. The shock
was undoubtedly a severe one, although no damage ap-
pears to have been done to any person or property in
the second train. We regret to state that the effect on
the first train was more serious. A female servant,
named Elizabeth Andrews, who was seated in the last
carriage, was killed by the shock. She had, with a fellow
servant, been down to Hampton-court, and her death
was, as far as our information reached, instantaneous.
Her fellow-servant, although seated beside her, sus-
tained little injury. Of the other sufferers we heard of
one who was severely injured in the body, and had, it is
believed, some ribs broken. There were, we regret to
add, several other contusions and injuries of more or less
severity, but we have not been able accurately to ascer-
tain the extent of them.
The Chairman of the Directors and the principal
officers of the Company were actively engaged when our
reporter was at the station, in the investigation of the
subject.

(LATEST PARTICULARS.)
Among the sufferers who were severely injured on
Saturday by this lamentable accident are Mr. Winsland,
the builder, of Duke-street, Bloomsbury, whose exten-
sive premises, it will be recollected, were recently burnt
down ; and Mr. Stewart, the great land surveyor, of 94,
Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, who are both most
severely injured in the face. A mechanic, whose name
could not be learned, but who resides in Drury-lane,
had his arm broken, and was otherwise severely injured
in his body.
POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.
A gentleman who stated that he was solicitor to the
overseers of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, appeared before
Alderman Hooper, who sat during the temporary ab•
sense of the Lord Mayor, for the purpose of making
some observations upon a representation made by Mr.
Smart, the vestry-clerk of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate,
relative to the alleged misconduct of the overseers of
the former parish to the unfortunate suicide named Ab-
bot, as reported in the newspapers on Friday last.
The ALDERMAN asked whether Mr. Smart was pre-
sent ?
The solicitor replied in the negative. He baa
an intimation to that gentleman that it sent
7-as his intention
to appear at the Mansion-hn
extraordinary naturo :se in consequence of the
gentleman ~ or the representation made by that
, on a subject on which the public mind
.. as extremely sensitive, but no notice was taken of the
message.
Mr. Hobler informed the Alderman that Mr. Smart
had applied for an order of removal for the widow and
children of the unfortunate man alluded to, from the
parish of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, in which they had
in which
AO claim, to that of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields,

they had a settlement, and that upon that occasion the
disposition of the Overseers of the latter parish to render
assistance was called in question, an imputation which
it seemed was not at all relished.

The Solicitor to the Overseers of St. Martin's parish
said that his clients were quite astonished at seeing
themselves involved in a matter with which they had
nothing whatever to do. It was ascertained, also,
upon inquiry, that the statements made by the Vestry
Clerk of St. Botolph's Bishopsgate were quite erro-
neous, to describe them in the most delicate manner.
The Overseers of St. Martin's had, in the first place, no
business to interfere with relief to the poor. That de.
partment of the parochial jurisdiction was in the hands
of the Guardians, and therefore to charge the Over-
seers with neglect or want of feeling in this matter was
wholly unjustifiable. But the Relieving Officer of St.
Martin's-in-the-Fields was present to confirm, on oath,
if required, the contradiction to all the leading asser-
tions in the statement and letter of the accuser. The
family, instead of having been, as was asserted, merely
helped with a few loav©s of bread, had, in fact, received
oitt-of-door pecuniary relief as long as the unfortunate
man required it, until he declined, with grateful thanks
to the Relieving Officer, to receive any more, alleging
that he was in employment, and able to support his wife
and children.

Mr. Hobler said it was certainly extraordinary that
a man who had such assistance to resort to, should
throw himself out at a window to avoid the misery of
seeing his family in the workhouse.

The Solicitor to the Overseers of St. Martin's-in-
the-Fields said, that even in the least important par-
ticulars, the statement was erroneous. It was not true
that the man was a mechanic, and, as to the observa-
tion that he was a person of an unpauperised mind,
the inaccuracy of that description might be presumed
from the fact that he had, at several periods, received
parochial relief since his marriage, thus betraying a
strong propensity to the very habit which he was said
to have spurned.
Alderman HOOPER said that it would be better, per-
haps, for the Solicitor to the Overseers to meet Mr.
Smart on the subject before the Lord Mayor.
The Solicitor said that Mr. Smart had not paid those
he accused that compliment, notwithstanding which he
had been informed of the intention to deny the truth of
the charge, but was not in attendance to support his
allegations.

Alderman HOOPER—WeII, if Mr. Smart made an
ex parte statement, you are even with him, for you
also have made an ex parte statement. I cannot de-
cide between you.
Mr. Hobler informed the Alderman that, without
making any allusion at all to the present case, it was
the practice now for parochial authorities to treat the
complaints of the starving poor with the most cruel
neglect and inhumanity, end the moment any fatal
co. sequences took place, to come forward with loud
declarations in praise of their great compassion, and to
vituperate those who dared to suppose that they were
incapable of any thing that did not savour of the very
milk of human kindness.

The Solicitor declared that his object was to show
that his clients had been erroneously charged, and to
remove from them a stigma, of which they were un-
deserving. He thanked the Alderman for having
allowed him to take the opportunity to correct the
impression which had gone abroad to the prejudice of
the authorities of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, who, he
was ready to prove, upon the oath of the Relieving Offi-
cer present, were wholly blameless on the occasion.