The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-12 00:00:00

POST-OFFICE NOTICES.

The following were issued yesterday at the General
Post-office :—" Her Majesty's steamer the Acheron,
wi▪ th mails for Madeira, Cape of Good Hope, Swan
Ri▪
ver, and Auckland, New Zealand, is appointed to
sail from Devonport on the 11th instant. Mails to
the Coast of Africa, &c.—Mails will be made up at
this office on the evening of the 31st instant for Ma-
deira and the West Coast of Africa, to be conveyed
by one of her Majesty's ships appointed to sail on the
let proximo. Letters for Madeira will be charged a
postage of is. 10d. per half-ounce and so on, and
newspapers 2d. each, which must be prepaid. Letters
for the West Coast of Africa will be charged ls. per
half-ounce, newspapers free of postage. All letters
and newspapers for Sierra Leone, not directed to
be forwarded by any other vessel, will be dis-
patched by these mails. Letters and newspapers for
Madeira, or for any part of the Western Coast of
Africa, except Sierra Leone, intended to be sent by
these vessels, must be specially addressed By her
Majesty's ship the —.' Further notice will be
given about the 26th instant as to the name of the
packet and the port from which she will take her
departure. The mails for British North America,
Bermuda, and the United States will be made up on
Friday evening next, the 14th inst., to be for warded by
the Acadia steamer, via Liverpool, Halifax, and Boston,
and on Friday evening, the 28th instant, by the
Hibernia steamer, via Liverpool and New York;
next packet due on the 16th. Madeira, the British
and Foreign Colonies in the West Indies (except
Honduras, _Nassau, Bermuda, New Orleans, Mexico,
Havannab, and San Juan, Porto Rico), Venezuela,
Jacmel, San Juan de Nicaragua, New Grenada,
instant,
by and Peru, on the morning of the 17th
by the Forth steamer, via Southampton ; next
packet due on the 22d. Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon,
Cadiz, and Gibraltar, on the morning of the 17th
instant, due on the 15th. Gibraltar, Malta, Greece,
the lonian Islands, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India,
Hong-Kong, and China, on the morning of the 20th
instant, Hindostan, via Southampton. By the fort-
nightly overland closed snail to the Mediterranean,
India, &c., via Marseilles, on the evening of the
24th; instant.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—Early yesterday morning
intelligence reached this town of the melancholy death
of Mr. Halliwell, cash-keeper to the Duke of Bridge-
water's dock and warehouses at Preston Brook. The
particulars, as detailed to us, are these:—Mr. Halliwell
had been waiting for a short time the arrival of a train
from Crowe, to take him to Manchester, where it was
his intention to join a wedding party, to meet his sister,
who had been married a few days before. About this
time the express train, which leaves this town at half-
past six, for London, was seen in the distance, and on
Mr. Halliwell crossing from one side of the road to the
other, the engine, which, no doubt, he had not antici-
pated so soon, struck him on the aide and knocked him
acrok,,, the
line. The iron guard in front of the engine
eaught his head, and dragged him for some distance.
Vi nun he was t:4l(eu up his foot was found to be severed,
and, besides other very severe injuries, several of his
ribs were fractured. The unfortunate man only.lived a
Tory short time after the accident,—Liverpool.Mercury.