The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-22 00:00:00

RANEAN.

" 19th Regiment, to Malta, and 30th to Corfu, to re-
place the two Regiments which were withdrawn from the
Mediterranean, to augment the troops in Canada.
" 42d Regiment, to relieve the 59th, at Corfu.
" 79th 33d, at Gibraltar.
" 88th 47th, at Malta.
" 97th 2d bat., 60th, at Corfu.
" tat bat., Rifle Brigade... 92d, at Malta.
(From the Courier.)
The affecting, and, indeed, deeply distressing case of
murder, which we inserted on Saturday, in the report
of the trial of Edward Garrett, at the Wels Assizes,
has led to some speculation whether the sentence of
the law will be carried into effect. It appeared from
the witnesses that the unhappy man was peaceable,
honest, industrious, and tenderly attached to his wife
and three children, but bent to the very earth by
want and indigence. Night after night be beheld his
children go to bed crying from the pangs of hunger,
-which he was utterly unable to relieve. Having not
the slightest prospect of improving his circumstances,
and feeling the dreadful certainty that his children
must perish before his eyes by the most cruel of all
deaths, his mind became disordered, and, in an agony
of distraction, he poured laudanum down their throats,
and then attempted to.destroy himself by the same means.
The coroner's jury returned a verdict of " Temporary
;z sanity," which all the facts of the case appear to war-
rant. A second jury, that of the Assizes, qualify a ver-
dict of guilty of murder with a. recommendation to
mercy
on mount of the distressed state
course the Judge could take no of his mind. f
notice of the latter
portion of the verdict. He could only forward it to the
proper quarter, and therefore passed the usual sentence.
About two years ago a very similar case of a murder of
his children by a man, excited to madness by woe and
'misery, occurred in the neighbourhood of Northamp-
ton, which, we presume, is the case thatthe Times
somewhat erroneously places in the neighbourhood of Bir-
mingham. In both instances the unfortunate men pre-
ferred, if man in their state of mind can be said to have
the power of judging, the destruction of themselves and
their beloved children, rather than be separated from them
by the regulations of the Union Workhouses, by which
reit acquired and natural ties are ruthlessly severed. We
Ithave not the last case before us, but we perfectly recol-
7eet that, except as to the instrument of death, it was
tit:t same as that of poor Garrett. He, we are told by
'aro witnesses, had been coldll refused assistance by his
friends when driven to extremity; he was oppressed with
debts, and goaded to madness by the cries of his children,
• vr:icsse hunger he could not appease ; he had only one

resource—to place himself, his wife, and children in a I
Poor•law Union Workhouse—to live, not together, but
separate, and as if estranged from each other. This
dreadful alternative, it appears, was not less dreadful
than the spectacle of their daily and hourly sufferings,
and, brooding over their misery, he lost his senses.
Who, in these cases, are the real murderers—these
wretched men, or those sordid legislators who, in pur-
suit of a penurious theory of economy in the appliance
of public fund.; destined for the assistance of the unfor-
tunate, not content with abolishing the system of out-
door relief, introduced the system of separating husbands
and wives, parents and children, into their execrable
ctstablishments

COURSE OF EXCH,
Amsterdam CF. 12 4i
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam 2U. 12 5
Antwerp ....... ....... 1.3 4
Hamburg... M. B. 13 11
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 30J
Ditto, 3 months 25 55
Marseilles
Bourdeaux
Frankfort on Maine _1494
Petersburg, 3 Us 37i
Berlin ... 7 0
Vienna, effec. ff. 3 M... 10 4
Trieste, ditto lO 6
Madrid

Cadiz
Bilboa
Barcelona 36
Seville

,NGE, YESTERDAY.

Gibraltar 4B
Leghorn 3O 20
Genoa
Milan
Venice 47
Naples 4oi
Palermo, per oz 1221
Lisbon s4i
Oporto
Rio Janeiro 23
Bahia
Buenos Ayres
New York, 21 days'sight 46i
Philadelphia
PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Portugal Gold, coin £0 0 0
Foreign Gold, bars... 3 17 9
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 104
Silver in Bars 0 5 (Ji

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS

(FRIDAY EVENING.)
CHRONICLE.—We understand that Count Lara
is the name of the party who has addressed a communi-
cation to the Committee of Spanish Bondholders in the
capacity of an accredited financial agent from the Go-
vernment of Spain. Count Lara is not much known,
we believe, in the-vity ; but from inquiries which we
have made, we are satisfied that he is highly respectable ;
and as he has distinctly stated that be has received powers
from the Spanish Government to treat with the bond-
holders, we must infer that he would not have done so
without good grounds. It has been stated to us that
Count Lara intimated to the Committee that he was
prepared with specific proposals, but that he would
prefer having a personal interview upon the subject in
the first instance, and that the Committee accordingly
signi:ied their acquiescence in the propriety of that
course. It is much to be hoped, therefore, that Count
Lara is versant in finance, and that he is armed with
the necessary authority to bind the Government of
Spain to fulfil his conditions, if accepted by the bond.
holders.
We conclude that he knows how the funds are to
be raised and secured, necessary to give them the full
and permanent benefit of any such arrangement. Unless
Count Lara has foreseen and considered all these
points, his mission is not likely to be attended with
much good, and would only raise hopes to end in
disappointment.

POST.—The result of the proceedings of the Por-
tuguese bondholders at the meeting held to-day at the
London Tavern was perfectly satisfactory, as far as this
and other Journals, wha were threatened with actions
by Baron de Moncorvo, are concerned. We need not
dwell, under this head, upon the good feeling that was
exhibited in favour of the portion of the press by
which their interests have been advocated, as they will
be found especially reported elsewhere. It is enough
to remark that the chairman (Mr. Thornton) and other
gentlemen declared their readiness to back us in op-
position to Portuguese dishonesty in every way in their

power.
Mr. Thornton submitted for the consideration of
the meeting a mode of settlement of the Portuguese
claims to which he called upon the bondholders
strictly to adhere. It was this, namely, to take the 21
per cent. offered, but to insist on a funding of the
arrears at 80 per cent., or in other words, on 100 of
home stock for every 80 per cent. coupons. This
would be equivalent to 6 per cent. on the coupons
overdue. He next proposed that for the 2i per cent.
henceforth accruing the Government should issue either
home stock on the same terms, i. e. fund it at 100
per cent. stock for 80 per cent. coupons, or issue
Treasury bills similar to those already issued for some
portion of the dividends, and on which interest is punc-
tually paid co those who accepted the tender, half-yearly,
in exchange for coupons, the interest to be paid until
the Treasury bills are redeemed at par. Resolutions
to this effect were passed. The meeting was one of a
preliminary character merely, but we doubt not it will
be followed up by active measures calculated to obtain
Justice for the bondholders, who have waited so long
and so patiently for the interest of their advances made
to Portugal in her hour of need.

HERALD.—Consols left off to-day 89 to I for
both Money and Account, which shows a decline of 3.
since yesterday, and the Funds heavy altogether. The
fall is the more ominous as so long continued, and the
reactions more rare and trivial in extent than perhaps
were ever before known. It is now moreover ascer-
itained with tolerable certainty that the great sellers of
late have been the Jew party, as noticed yesterday, and
tf,kt their operations, conducted as they arc with great
caution, as well as with all possible secrecy, are
tact ans 4.
still carried
n in the same direction. It will appear singu-
laro to those not Cs"
nversant with the nature of Stock Ex-
change speculations t!'at, according to private advices from
Paris, the leaders of the :` bull" party there of the same
class, have on the contrary been the largest purchasers of
French and other stocks, but principally of Three per
Cent. Rentes. In the commencement of the panic in
the funds there resulting from late political events
these purchases were doubtless bona fide, and made
with the conviction that the alarms of approaching war
or of serious dissensions between France and the other
powers, were purely visionary. But latterly it has
been observed that the purchases were more ostensible
than real, and made with the obvious tendency of
propping up a rotten market whilst the parties ope-
rating could themselves " slip out." It was also
strongly suspected that whilst Three per Cents were
ostentatiously bought with one hand, Five per Cents
were sold underhand with the other. It is evident
that a foundation must exist somewhere for this preva-
lent distrust, and that far from a rapprochement events
in certain quarters are assuming a more untoward aspect

THE LATE LAMENTABLE FATAL
ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES
RAILWAY.

THE INQUEST.

An inquest was held yesterday evening before C. C.
Lewis, Esq, Coroner for Essex, at the Fleece Inn, near
Brentwood, on the bodies of George Richard Ebs-
worth, aged 20, and John Eastman, aged 29.
The following evidence was adduced :
William Collier.—l am a guard belonging to the
Eastern Counties Railway. On Wednesday night last
I left Brentwood at seven o'clock ; the engine was un-
der the care of a man named Foster : we started at
about the usual pace, and I was standing with my back
against one of the third class carriages ; in a very short
time I felt the carriages rock very much ; I got up,
put on the break, but the rocking becoming more vio-
lent, I threw myself under one of the seats ; I knew no-
thing more until I was drawn out from under the car-
r ages. I was perfectly sensible, and I immediately ran
t) see if the driver and engine-man were burned. I saw
a man lying under one of the wheels ; I sent several
persons instantly for surgeons.
By the CORONER—CRM not speak as to the rate
the engine was going at the time of the accident, but 25
miles an hour ought to be the greatest speed. The road
and rails were perfect, as far as I know.
By the Foreman—lt is the duty of the driver to see
that the engine is in order before every journey, but I
do not know whether such examination took place on
the evening the accident occurred.
By the CORONER—I did not know what carriage
Mr. Ebsworth was in. I saw two men pulling off the
clothes from Eastman. Collier was a steady driver, and
I never knew him to exceed his pace before.
By Mi. Duncan—When I rose to put on the break,
I saw Foster shut off the steam.
William Hayes, a police constable employed on the
Eastern Counties Railway, on the evening of Wednes-
day last was on duty ; saw the up-train coming at a
quicker pace than he had ever seen it before. Heard
a loud report, and saw the engine and train go off the
line with a terrific crash.
Two other persons, Thompson and Tabor, deposed
to the rocking of the train.
Wm. Winter—l am foreman to the platelayers em-
ployed on the Eastern Counties Railway—it is my duty
to see that the plates are all correct three miles along
the line from Brentwood ; examined the rails minutely
at nine o'clock on Wednesday morning, when they were
in proper order.
Mr. Moss, of South Weald, near Brentwood—l saw
going,
iloloeinn, tgra,ani nd
that
I faenit convinced,
comingaecainldoviennng the line on the evening in ques-
tion, ewdo,
ufriodmhatphpeerna.te at which it was
Captain Wm. Richardson, superintendent of the line
—I knew the driver of the nffine—he is a very steady
man, and I never knew hlim to' exceed the pace stated
.tay•tiieeDveirryecat
assistance tbaenfeoeireat.omt hew;unfftetroertsh.e spot and ren-
dered Mr. Braithwaite-1
excellentdi rectci ohna
engineer to the line. Foster,
the driver, was enraged b
directions
months ago. I received a very
first drove the ballast-engine, and, in him from the Southampton Railwayer eighteen
rhwteietini
consequence Company.
ofe ha s t
good conduct, he was promoted to the train engine. The
speed allowed by the Company was
never to exceed
thirty miles an hour, and to shut of the steam when
going down the inclined plane. I rendered every pos-
sible assistance to the sufferers, being on the spot within
five minutes after the accident occurred.
By the CORONER—At the time the train went off the
rail, it was going at the rate of forty-five to fifty miles
an hour, I am clearly of opinion that over-speed
was the cause of the accident. The engine is worth
1,3001.
The CORONER said the case was of importance, and