The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-04 00:00:00

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ROYAL ASSENT TO RAILWAY BlLLS.—Eighty.
three railway Bills received the Royal assent during the
present session. The amount of capital authorised' to
be raised by these Bills is 10,794,6601.; and the sum to
be borrowed, 4,137,6101., when half the capital is paid
up; making together 14,887,2701.. This money is .re-
quired to complete certain railways in course of con-
struction, to establish steam-boats in connexion there-
with, and to construct 413 miles of new railway, con-
sisting principally of branches.
MURDER OF A CHILD ON CLAPHAM-COMMON.-01
Saturday Mr. W. Carter held an adjourned inquest at
the Falcon, Wandsworth-road, upon the body ot an in-
fant female child, about a month old, which bad been
found drowned in the spring well on Clapb.am-common.
From the evidence adduced at the two inv ;
sefhich took place, it appeared that the wellfoi
bucket-
well, about twelve feet in circumference,
road,
across
deep, and is situated a little out of the
ortb.
fourteen feet
There i 4
the common from Clapham to Watildswoft
water, and a
and selling it
number of men obtain a livingt by
bourhood. On Thurs-
very abundant supply of peculiarly
to numerous families in the net esigx o'clock, the body of the
day morning, about half past
in the well; it we
deceased child wus found it
clenched, and its body drawn h®
naked; its hands vvcref
0_
.ts
having
been cast into the
giving undoubted proo f rcYartsing
water
nt struggle for existence.
alive, and its subsequent
The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful warder against
some person or persons unknown.
rEry's DIARY.-IVe are requested to. state that
Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street, has this
day published the Third Volume of the New „Edition of
pepy's Diary and Correspondence," with the omitted
passages restored. 2. Also, just published, "',The Us-
cipline of Life," a Novel, 3 vols. " Since Miss Austen
ceased to write, and Mrs. Marsh began, we have had'no
other story-telling ot its class that we
would
place upon
a level with this for freshness, straightforwardness, and
truth of tone and feeling."—Examiner. 3. "A. Yacht
Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden," by W. A.
Boss, Esq., 2 vols. 4. " The Court and Times .of
Charles 1.," by the author of " The
Court and Times of
James 1.," 2 volt. Bvo. 5. Miss Strickland's " Lives .of
the Queens of England,"
Ward's Narrative of her " Five Years' Residence in
Kafirluna,” with. Sketches of the late War, with Por-
traits, B:e., 2 vols.
CORONER'S liQunsT.—An inquest was held on
Saturday, by Ali.. Bedford, the Westminster coroner, at
St.•Gt orge's Hospital, on the body of Edward Weaver,
ged 51. It appeared from the evidence of several
witnesses that the deceased was coachman to Colonel
Sykes, and on the previous Saturday evening deceased
was going through the stables in Hyde Park-mews
West, when one of the coach horses flew at him as be
was passing the stall, and caught him by the right
arm. The animal dragged him to the ground, where
he continued to bite and trample on the unfortunate de-
ceased, until he became insensible, in which state he was
found some time utter by his wife covered with blood.
He never showed the least signs of recovery, and died in
a raving state on the following Thursday. Verdict
"Died from injuries received by the violence of n vicious
horse."