The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-18 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £4 Os to £5 Os Od; clover,
£4 Ss to £6 2s 6d ; and straw, £1 6s to £1 lOs per load.
Trade dull.

CumBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 5s Od; clover,
£4 lOs to £6 Gs OS ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 12s per load.
Trade inactive.

WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 Os Od; clover,
£4 lOs to £6 Os Od ; and straw, £1 6s to £1 lOs per load.
A slow demand.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton May 19.
Ditto, via Marseilles June 12,
Brazil and Cape Verde. by British pan, et June 5.
Ditto, by French packet May 22.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St Helena... May 25.
China, Penang, and Sing,ip,)re, via Sou hampton May 19.
Ditto, via Marseilles Jane 2.
Falkland Island•
Gibraltar, %fa Southampton

➢iay 19.

_., ... ,
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... May 19.
Ditto, via Marseilles
India (Bombay), via Southampton. May 27.
Ditto, via Marseilles ,...May 26.
Mauritius, via Southampton

Ditto, via Maned a June 5.
Newfoundland May 24.

June 5.

Portugal
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon...
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet May 24
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton

Ditto, via Cork

Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. May 19
West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe. June 10
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba,

and Mexico Illy `c9•

Bahamas, pia New York.
Bermuda, ditto June 7,
Cuba and Mexico May 29.

DARING POST-OFFICE ROBBERY.—A robbery,
which we should imagine for ingenuity and auda-
city has no parallel in modem times, occurred at a branch
post-office in the Bridgewater district. On Thursday even-
ing two individuals, having all the outward appearance of
gentlemen, stayed at the White Hart, Eastover. They
hired a conveyance in the morning from Mr. Ricks, in
which one of them went on to Nether Stowey, and, pre-
senting himself at the branch office there, represented that
he was an inspector on a tour of inspection. The post-
master, of course, thinking that inspectors are very erratic
and übiquitous, and generally give no indications of their
coming, let him have the run of the establishment. He
overhauled the office, and said, " Ah, I see I must have a
great many alterations here. You don't manage as you
should do, nor do they at Bridgewater?' He asked for the
money-order book, and said, " We aro going to have some
fresh forms. I will take them away, and leave you some
to go on with." He took away 300. He then went to
Holford, a quiet village about two miles away, and there
made out 50 orders for £lO each on the general and branch
offices of London, payable to different parties. He came
back to the Stowey office, seized an opportunity to put the
invoices ready stamped with the forged signature of the
postmaster into the bag. It. was sealed. He then came to
Bridgewater, found his confederate, went off by the night
mail to London, presented his orders at the different
offices, and netted a neat £5OO. It is undoubtedly the
cleverest piece of roguery that has been perpetrated for
some time past.—Western Daily Press.
SUICIDE THROUGH POVERTY.—Yesterday evening
an inquiry was held at the St. Martin's Vestry Hall,
Charing-cross, by Mr. Bedford, respecting the suicide of
Mary Conway, aged 63 years. It appeared from the evidence
that the deceased was the wife of John Conway, formerly
a tailor, living at No. 5, Taylor's-buildings, Chandos-street.
The old man being unable to work at his trade they were
in great distress, as they had only 6s. a week to live upon.
Deceased often said that she could not bear such poverty,
and she would make away with herself. On Friday night
her husband went out as a watchman, and in his absence
the deceased locked up her room, and then proceeded to the
Thames Embankment, whence she must have thrown her-
self into the river, for she was found floating there next day.
Her husband said that she had during the day tried to get a
ticket from some charity for tea and sugar, and he believed
that her failing to obtain it had caused her to commit suicide.
The jury returned an open verdict of "Found dead in the
Thanaeo."