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

£lO9 18 11

Total .. ... 4
STEAM-BOATS.

Passengers £230 17 9
Parcels, H. C. and D. ... ... 17 15 2

Total £2,18 12 11
CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.— (189.1 miles opened.)—Return of
traffic for the week ending Oct. 12 :
Passengers, &c. £4,547 18 1Q
Goods, &c. .•• ... 4,G21 1 3

Total .. .£9,163 0 14
Corresponding week last year ..„ 8.:;93 5 772

STEALING A MAIL CART.
On Tuesday morning, at five o'clock, or shortly after-
wards, while the mail cart driver of the Deptlord and
Greenwich " ride" was waiting for the letter bags inside
the post-office in Deptford-broadway, some parties, sup-
posed from information since received, to have been too
freely indulging in the pleasures provided at Charlton
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
traces of them could be found; and as the delttyoflae
r
Majesty's mails, under any circumstances, is a very
se-
rious matter, the luckless driver was compelled to find a
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 rord
leading to Rotherhithe, and, upon inquiry, it turned out
that the tollgate-keeper at one of the bars had noticed
two strange persons in a mail cart, which he thought to
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, Rotherbithe,
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 tots r.
i the M`Na-
mara, the mail contractor, hastened to rh for
the purpose of investigating the matter, which remains
in the hands of the police, as the pardes who have ven-
tured upon this foolish lark have not since been heard of.

Colonial-
office, from the Governor of St. Helena.
DEATH BY Poisow. —Last night m
r• akley,
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
-48, a
b.
Drury-lane, on the body of Joseph Linkon, agedird-
M.P., held an inquest at the King's Arms,Short's-gardens,Ws-gardens,
stuffer. George Darnell, No. 12, Queen-street, Seven Dials,
stated that the deceased, who was a widower,
two wives, had lodged in his house for eight moat"' 1
Monday morning last, about seven o'clock, being out, he was
fetched home by his wife, who said deceased had taken
,e
poison. lie hurried home and found deceased lying In
"that
bed in great pain, who, in answer to his questicns,
having buroieda
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
same evening. Mr. Bennett said, on seeing the deceased he
was in a state of collapse, and he at once discovered that he
was labouring under the effects of poison, and to counteract
it he used every exertion, but in vain. On making a post
mortem examination he found death to have been caused by
taking a large quantity of arsenic place the
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 mistske, a piece of bread and butter, on which, to poison
the mica, he had placed as much arsenic as would cover a
sixpence —Verdict,. That deceased died from taking poison,
but whether intentionally or not, there was no evidence to
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