The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-24 00:00:00

THAMES.

ROBBERY AT THE TOWER-HILL PUMP.—Elizabeth
Seares, alias Clare, a dissipated and desperate thief, who is
well known to the police, was brought before Mr. Woolrych
charged with stealing a purse containing sixpence and a
pawnbroker's duplicate from the person of Mary Vigo.
The complainant, a poor and industrious Irishwoman,
said she had been out on Saturday doing a day's charing,
and while returning home in the evening she asked the man
at the pump on Tower-hill to give her a glass of water, and
he did so. After she drank the water the man at the pump
asked her if she had lost anything. She put her hand in
her pocket and missed her purse. The man at the pump
pointed to the prisoner, and said she has got your
purse. She went after the prisoner and charged her with
stealing her purse. The prisoner said there it is and re-
turned it to her. On opening it she found a sixpence in it,
but missed a pawnbroker's duplicate. She gave the pri-
soner into custody, and the duplicate which had been taken
out of the purse was now found upon her.
John Pinks, 384 K, who took the prisoner into custody,
said the prisoner was a very bad character, in the practice of
robbing every one she could lay hold of on Tower-hill, and
if she was remanded he could prove three or four other
convictions for felony against her.

Mr. Woolrych remanded the prisoner for a week.

TBE GREAT FIRE AT LONDON-

BRIDGE.

LATEST PARTICULARS.--(THIS DAY.)
This morning, a few minutes before five o'clock,
the body of Mr. Braidwood was, after the greatest
exertions, discovered beneath the mass of brickwork
that had fallen early on Saturday evening.
The remains of the unfortunate man presented a
melancholy spectacle. Portions of the body were
crushed as flat as paper, and other parts burned to
a cinder—a sadder sight could not be imagined.
The work of recovering the body has been carried
on with the greatest courage by a band of men,
devoted to their chief, who have continued their
exertions amid fire, water, and falling walls. No-
thing daunted them; and it is certainly a melan-
choly satisfaction that success has crowned their
noble and courageous exertions.

Of the body of Mr. Scott, the unfortunate
gentlemen who was with the late Mr. Braidwood
when the explosion which caused the wall to fall
nothing up to the present time has been discovered,
notwithstanding the greatest exertions have been
used to recover the body, as it has become known
that the deceased gentleman had banknotes to a
very large amount on his person.
The stronghold of the fire at the present time ap-
pears to be the vaults of Messrs. Chamberlayne's
premises, and although no further spread of the
fire is likely from present appearances, it will be
some days before the flames can be entirely ex-
tinguished.

The conflagration still continues to rage with
much fury, and every now and then huge tongues
of flame arise amidst the heap of ruins which are
succeeded by dense masses of black smoke which
completely cloud the sun as they pass before it.
The appearance of the place at times when the
breeze clears the smoke momentarily away, is pre-
cisely that of a town destroyed by an earthquake.

RAILWAYS IN INDIA.—The sums which have
been from time to time advanced by the Government of
India for payment of the guaranteed interest to the railway
companies amounted at the end of last year to £5,299,709
—viz., East Indian Railway Company, £2,736,059 ; Great
Indian Peninsula, £1,207,828 ; Madras, 778,092 ; Bombay,
Baroda, and Central India, £232,412; Scinde, £159,420 ;
Punjab, £73,403; Eastern Bengal, £55,544; Indus Steam
Flotilla, 23,740 ; Great Southern of India, £19,169 ; and
Calcutta and South-Eastern, £14,042. But from this ad-
vance of £5,299,709 must be deducted the net profits of the
railways which have been received by the Government,and
which amounted a year ago to £880,331. Tho annual sum
payable by the Government to the railway shareholders
for interest was about £1,450,000 at the beginning of this
year, and by the end of this year it will amount to
£1,800,000 a year ; but the profits of the railways for the
year 1860-61 (June to June) are expected to be £400,000.
It is hoped that as soon as railways are completed, and in
working order, they will pay the guaranteed interest as it
accrues, and that the large arrears due to the Government
will be ultimately repaid out of half the excess profits be-
yond 5 per cent.
THE GREAT POSTAL AND PASSENGER COMMUNI-
CATION BETWEEN LONDON AND DIIBLIN.—Of all the
routes, that via Chester:and Holyhead is the most impor-
tant, as by it all the correspondence between the two coun-
tries is conveyed, and it has been specially organised with
a view, not only to postal requirements, but also to insure
for passengers the utmost comfort and despatch that the
present state of science and of railway experience can afford.
The present service was commenced Oct. 1, 1860, under a
contract entered into by the Postmaster-General with the
London and North-Western Railway Company and the
City of Dublin Steam Packet Company. By the stipula-
tions of this contract, the distance (330 miles, of which 66
are by sea), between London and Kingstown (the packet
port for Dublin, with which it is connected by a railway 6i
miles long), must be accomplished in 11 hours mean time.
The trains leave Euston station at 7.25 a.m. (except on
Sundays) and 8.25 p.m., stopping only at Rugby, 83 miles
from London, Stafford, 133 miles, and Chester, 177 miles ;
thence to Holyhead station, 86 miles, making the total dis-
tance 263 miles, which is performed in six hours and 40
minutes. The time for conveying the passengers and mails
from the station to the pier, and transferring them to the
steamer, is about half an hour, which leaves three hOurs
and three-quarters for the transit 'to Kingstown—equal to
a speed of nearly 19 miles an hour. The steamers which
perform this service are the finest mail packets afloat. They
are named after the four provinces of Ireland—Lcinster,
Ulster, Connaught, and Munster. The first-named vessel
was built by Messrs. Samuda Brothers, London; the
others by Messrs. J. Laird and Sons, Birkenhead. The
engines of the Leinster and Connaught were mado by
Messrs. Ravenhill, Salkeld, and Co., London; those for the
other vessels by Messrs. James Watt and Co., of London,
and Soho, near Birmingham. The nominal power of each
pair of engines is 700 horses. The length of each
vessel is
360 feet, and their measurement is 2,000 tons,-s't,r Cusack
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