The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-29 00:00:00

THE FOREIGN MAILS.

POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR DECEMBER PROXIMO.—
Yesterday the following notice relative to the dispatch
of, and date of the return foreign mails, was issued M
the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Gland:—
WEST INDlES.—Morning of the 2d, the Avon, via
Southampton, for the British and foreign colonies in the
West Indies, Venezuela, Jacmel, Mexico, and New Or-
leans; Severn, evening of the 16th, for the British colo-
nies (except Honduras, Nassau, and Bermuda), and the
foreign (except Havannah), Venezuela, Jacmel, Madeira,
San Juan de Nicaragua, Chili, and Peru. Mails due, 7th
and 22d.

THE PENINSULII2.—Morning of the 7th, evening of
the 16th, and morning of the 27th, mails for Madeira,
Lisbon, Vigo, Oporto, Cadiz, Corunna, Madrid, and
Gibraltar. Return mails due, sth, 15th, and 25th.
INPlA.—Morning of the 20th, the Sultan for the mails
via Southampton for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the
lonian Isles, Egypt, Ceylon, India, and Hong-Kong.
Pacha due on the 18th.

OVERLAND MAIL, via Marseilles, will be dispatched
on the evenings of the 7th and 25th instant, for India,
Egypt, Malta, and the Mediterranean.
NORTH AMERICA. AND THE UNITED STATES.—MaIIs
will be dispatched, via Liverpool, for British North
America and the United States, every alternate Friday
during the months of December, January, February,
and March, and on tvery Friday during the remainder
of the year; the Niagara, for the mails of the evening
of the Ist, to be conveyed to Boston. The Atlantic
due on the 7th; mails will also be due on the 13th, 21st,
and 27th.

BRAZIL, &c.—The Seagull, for the mails of the even-
ing of the 4th, for Madeira, Brazil, and Buenos Ayres.
Expresses due on the 24th. From August to January
inclusive the packets touch at Bahia and Pernambuco on
the outward voyage to Rio Janeiro; the remaining six
months of the year on the homeward.
NEW SOUTH WALES.—Evening of the 31st, mails will
be dispatched for Sydney, New South Wales, Van Die-
men's Land, South Australia, and New Zealand. The
Calder► contract mail packet for the mails of the evening
of the 30th of November inst.

SOUTH-WEST COAST or Araxca.—Her Majesty's ship
Amazon, for the mails of the evening of the Ist, for
Madeira, Sierra Leone, Cape de Verdes and Ascension,
to sail from Devonport on the arrival of the London
post on the 2d. Letters for Madeira, ls. 10d.; Sierra
Leone and Ascension, Is. the half ounce, and so on.
Newspapers free, except Madeira, 2d. each. No post-
age having been fixed by law to the Cape de Verdes, let-
ters, &c., will be forwarded free of charge; mails for the
above also evening 31st.

A. GIRL HUNG BY HER MOTHER.
YesterdaylMr. Wakley held an inquest upon the body
of Ann Pullen, aged fourteen and a half years. De-
ceased resided with her mother at No. 3, Princes-street,
Fitzroy-square, and it was alleged had been hanged by
her parent. Jane Pullen, the accused, stated, in answer
to the coroner, that she was the widow of a sailor; that
she last saw the deceased alive at half-past eleven on Fri-
day morning; that she locked her in the room, having
fastened her with a cord to the bed-post; that she re-
turned home at half-past ten at night, and on unlocking
the door found the deceased dead, and cut her down
with a knife. Mr. Layman, landlord of the house, said
that at eleven o'clock on Friday night the prisoner knocked
at his door, saying "Ann is dead! what shall I do?" He
went down stairs and found deceased lying on the floor,
quite dead and cold. A rope and a knife were lying
on the bed. He proposed fetching a doctor. when pri-
soner said, " What's the use, as she is dead?" He then
said, " There must be an inquest," to which she replied,
" Something must be done, for I did it. I left her early
in the morning, with directions to mend some of her
things. She had been kept at home from her work on
purpose, and when I returned at eleven o'clock she had
done nothing. I told her she should have nothing but
dry bread, and in order to prevent her sitting down, I
put the rope round her neck and made it fast to the foot-
post of the bed, tying the ends of the rope out of her
reach." Prisoner also told this witness that when she re-
turned deceased was in a standing position, but leaning
forwards. Mr. Derbyshire, surgeon, said deceased died
from suffocation caused by hanging, the neck being deeply
indented by the rope, and the skin cut through. On a
post mortem examination, found the general appearances
healthy, but there were no signs of food in the stomach.
Mary Pullen, sister of deceased, a servant, said she had
known her mother tie deceased to the bedstead or her
hands together for two or three days at a time. De-
ceased was an idle girl, and her mother was very severe.
Never heard the prisoner threaten the life of the
deceased, or the latter threaten to destroy herself.
It was stated that the height of the indention upon the
bed-pt st, to which the rope was attached, was Sit. 104 in"
o
and that the height from deceased's heel t he marks
upon her neck made by the cord was 31t. 10in. The
jury, after two hours' deliberation, returned a verdict
of " Manslaughter," and the heartless mother was
committed by the Coroner to Newgate for trial on that
charge.

MANSLAUGUTER.—An inquest was held at the
house of Mr. Henry Johnson, Wellington Arms, Liver..
pool, before Mr. John Reyes, on view of the body of
Robert Leicester, aged seventeen years, who was struck
with a poker by his father, on Saturday, the Bth inst.,
and lingered until Thursday, the 23d, when he died. It
appeared from the evidence that deceased was qnarelling
with his father, John Leicester, about some money which
his father had refused to give him to spend. Leicester
became very angry in consequence of the ill language
he had received from his son, and in a moment of ex-
citement threw the poker at deeeased's head, which
fractured his skull, and he never afterward spoke. Lei-
cester, who was present during the examination, ap-
peared to be much affected. He was committed to take
his trial at the next Liverpool assizes.—Liverpool Mercury.
TUE MURDER AT STRooD.—On Saturday last
the Mayor, the Recorder, and others of the magistracy
of Rochester, proceeded to the county gaol at Maidstone
to hear further evidence in the case of the murdered
woman, Mary Abbott—that of a female named Hol-
loway, a sister of the accused Maria M'Grill, and who
was taken there for that purpose by Superintendent
Tuff. The nature of her evidence, however, has not
transpired. On Monday the coroner's jury assembled
for the seventh time, at the Guildhall, to terminate their
labours, by signing the inquisition; and the witnesses
(twenty. six in number) who had been examined before
the coroner and the:magistrates, were then bound over to
appear and give evidence at the next assizes. Two boats
and gear, and four fishing nets, together with several
articles of household furniture, belonging to M'Gill,
have been seized, and placed in safe custody, for a two-
fold purpose—in the event of an acquittal to be restored
to the accused, or, if otherwise, they become forfeited to
the Crown.
DARING ROBBERY.—A daring robber was
y
yes-
terday committed from the shop of a tobacconist in
Long-acre. It appears that the owner of the shop holds
a sweep for the purpose of drawing gold and silver
watches, and in the window is displayed a box of speci-
mens. Some daring thief, while Mr. Draper was in the
parlour, broke the pane of glass and purloined the box
containing watches to a great amount, with which he
get clear off. Information of the robbery has been for-
t warded to the police, and every exertion is being made
to trace the property.