The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-23 00:00:00

£lO9 18 11

Total

STEAM-BOATS.

Passengers -.:.---- ...---... £23017 9
Parcels, H. C. and D. ... ... 17 15 2

Total £248 12 11
CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.—(IB9I miles opened.)— Rat urn of
;raffle for the week ending Oct. 12 :
Passengers, &c. £4,547 18 lOi
Goods, &C. ... ... 4,621 1 3

Total £9,169 0
Corresponding week last year e,t,93 571

STEALING A MAIL CART.

On Tuesday
the
mail
dart morning, at
driver o
five o' c l oef k,
the or shortly
after-
wards,while Deptford and
Greenwich " ride" was waiting for the l"tter bags inside
pies
the post-office in Deptford-broadway, some
havart, e
sup-
posed from information since received,
to been too
freely indulging in the pleasures provided at Chariten
Fair, jumped into the vehicle and drove off. The driver,
upon reaching the street, was utterly bewildered at find-
ing the vehicle and the horse had both disappeared. No
e
traces of them could be found; and as th d lay e of her
'Majesty's mails, under any circumstances, is a vet",
e
rioas matter, the luckless driver was compelled to dn. ti;
cab as soon as possible, and make the best of his way to
the General Post-office, in St. Martin's-le-Grand, leaving
the delinquents and the vehicle and missing horse to the
investigation of the police. Shortly afterwards it was
discovered that a mail cart had been seen on the road
leading to Rotherhithe, and, upon inquiry, it turned out
that the tollgate-keeper at ono of the
bars
he had noticed
to
two strange persons in a mail cart, which thought
be exceedingly singular, as no regular cart passes that
way at that time of the morning. Thence the fellows
were traced to the Six Bells, Lucas-street, Rotherhithe,
where the vehicle and the horse were found left in front
of the tavern door, the drivers having decamped. In-
formation of the occurrence having been forwarded to
the Post-office, Mr. Cook, the foreman to Mr. NPNa-
mara, the mail contractor, hastened to Rotherhitho for
theitruPwe of investigating the matter, which remains
hands of the police, as the parties who have ven-
turede
upon this foolish lark have not since been heard of.

Dispatches were received yesterday
office, from the Governor of St. Helena.
,
„,.ht Mr.
DEATH By Poison. •—•-• Last
.n.ardens,
M.P., held an inquest at the King's Arms, Short's- gardens,
S bird-
Drurv-lane, on the body of Joseph Linkon, °
tit'e
Seven Dials,
stuffer. George Darnell, No. 12, Queen-Weer,
at the Colonial-
buried
stated that the deceased, who was a widower, having 03
two wives, had lodged in Isis house for eight months,.
Monday morning last, about seven o'clock. being out, la wa
fetched home by his wife, who said deceased had takennthe
poison. He hurried home and found deceased
bed in great pain, who, in answer to his
sa
he had taken poison on some bread and butter, by accident.
Witness immediately fetched Mr. Bennett, the parish
sur-
geon, who attended him till his death, which took placedthe
e
same evening. Mr. Bennett said, on seeing the decease b
be
was in a state of collapse, and he at once discovered that
was labouring under the effects of poison, and to counteract
ques;iolnysi,ng that
it he used every exertion, but in vain. On making a pus
mortem examination he found death to have been caused by
taking a large quantity of arsenic James Brookes, a lodger
in the adjoining room to deceased, said that while the first
witness was gone for, deceased told him that he had eaten,
by mistake, a piece of bread and butter, on which, to poison
the mice, he bad placed as much arsenic es would cover a
sixpe-c3,—Verdict,,, That deceased died from taking poison,
but whether intentionally or not, there was no evidence to
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