The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-29 00:00:00

THE RAPID DESPATCH OF THE INDIA

MAILS.

The General Post-of:117e authorities have again
secured a rapid transmission of the India mails from
Paris to London. The Calcutta portion of the mail,
consisting of 48 boxes, left Marseilles at 10 p.m. on
Monday ; Paris, at 7.30 p.m. on Tuesday ; Bou-
logne, 1.50 yesterday (Wednesday) morning ;
Dover, at 4.8 a.m. ; and reached the London-
bridge terminus at six Minutes past 6. This mail
came by the regular trains down to Boulogne, ar-
riving there at 1.5 a.m. The Royal mail-packet
Prince Frederick William, ordered for this special
service, embarked the mails in the Roads at that
place, the conveyance to the boats and thence to
the packet in the dark night, with a heavy swell
on the bar, wind N.N. W., occupying 45 minutes,
and made the passage to. Dover against a fresh
wind and tide within two hours. The special
'rain ran from Dover to London in 1 hour 58 min.
The Bombay mail,
consisting of 12 boxes, left Mar.
smiles on Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock, and Paris
by special train at 6 o'clock yesterday (Wednesday)
morning. It arrived at Boulogne at 10.50. a.m.,
and the Prince Frederick William having returned
again fel. Dover at 11.7 a,. m. She arrived
o Boulogne roads, embarked the mails from boa's,
and left
at the Admiralty-pier within 1 h. 46 min. ; the
mail was in the special train,.and off from Dover at
1.4 p.m., and running up in 1 hour and 50 minutes,
arrived at the South-Eastern terminus, London-
bridge, at 2.54 p.m. It will be seen that by these
excellent arrangements of special trains and packets
the Bombay mail was brought from Paris to
London in. 8 hourt and 54 minutes, notwith-
standing the boxes bad to be shipped by
small boats in Boulogne Roads, and this
rapid conveyance of both the mails enabled
Ithe General Post-office to send the country por-
tions to their destinations 12 hours before the time
they would have been despatched under ordinary
routine. On these occasions Dover was preferred
as the best port for debarcation ; in the first place,
because Dover is more than a mile nearer Bou-
logne than Folkestone ; and secondly, because
Folkestone being a dry harbour as well as Boulogne,
if the packet had gone to Folkestone small boats
must have been used in landing the mails, and thus
the same risk and delay would have been incurred
as at Boulogne, whereas Dover has now the Admi-
ralty pier, at which passengers can land and embark
at all times of the tido. By running to Dover,
therefore, the inconveniences of one tidal harbour
only (Boulogne) bad to be endured and overcome. ,

4 SOMERSETSHIRE .TAOK ~111EPPARD,

(Front the Bristol Times.)
On Thursday evening week, a noted character, named
George Kelloway, sometimes called " George the
Rogue," formerly a companion of Thomae Nation, the
murderer, was apprehended by the police, by whom he
has been long " wanted " for divers felonies, &c., known
to hare been committed in West Somerset by his prac-
tised hand. It seems that about seven o'clock on that
evening he called at the mho? of Mr. Cross, ironmonger,
Golden-hill, Wiveliacombe, dressed in a respectable
style, and ordered a large quantity of goods for house-
farnishiug, representing that he was about to be united
in marriage to a Miss Gratton, whom he represented
as the daughter of a farmer of Kingebrompton. He
asked to be allowed to let the bulk of the goods selected
remain for the night, and he would send his trap for them
en the morrow, preferring, however, to take a few of
the lighter articles with him, and the whole to be paid
for when the rest were fetched away. Mr. Cross, know-
ing nothing of "George the Rogue," or his antecedents
foolishly parted with some of the goods, and his cus-
tomer left the shop. Soon after this Lacy Collard, now a
" new" policeman, but anciently one of the " Old Char-
lies," went into the shop et Mr. Cross, and learnt there
that such a customer as his friend George had lately
visited the establishment, under the circumstances stated.
Collard went to look alter the fellow, and found him in
the shop of Mr. Thorne, adraner ; he there arrested him
whits having an order for shirting-calico executed by the
unsuspecting draper. The prisoner was then given into
the custody of Police-constable Hardwick, who collared
Kelloway, but did not handcuff him, and proceeded in
the direction of the lock-up, They bad proceeded only a
short distance, when " George the Rogue" gave the
constable " one for his nob," dodged him, and escaped,
knocking down a boy in his flight. The fugitive rushed
down a small court, entered a yard belonging to Mr. W.
Hancock, where he met a man named Sully ; the latter
inquiring what he wanted, received for answer a blow
from " George the Rogue," which knocked him down,
Nothing stopped the runaway's progress ; he jumped
over a wall in the yard of the White Horse Inn, from
whence he bounded like a stag into an orchard belong-
ing to Mr. Martin, of the Boar Inn, and after that he
was lost sight of for some time. On the Sunday' follow-
ing, Hardwick was posted at Lotrow.cross (a plane ren-
dered famous by its being the spot where Nation was
captured the morning
.a the meantime Wright,
after the murder) to
watch for Kelloway, and l
another constable, west on horseback towards the iron
mines at Brendun-hill. He dismounted at Raleigh's.
cross, and walked some distance, when he espied the
escaped prisoner, and Kelloway recognised the police.
man, Hardwick also came up, accompanied by Mr.
Beamer, jun., of Huish, who volunteered his services,
and "George the Ro,,ue" quickly took to his heels,
Wright and Beamer gave clue as far as Treborough,
where they lost their man in the wood, but he was
afterwards tracked to a bush where he had concealed
himself. As soon as his retreat was discovered, Kelloway
clambered over the rocks with extraordinary agility, and
was closely pursued. Wright caught at him, but missed,
and fell down, Kelloway falling
upon him, and Beamer
tumbled upon both. In this desperate struggle the
parties rolled over and over
down the moss-covered
rucks, aid in tile descent the rogue lost one of his boots
and cut his foot very badly ; the policeman his hat, and
W
liscombe.
was secured and taken to Wirt
list
Beamer brake his left arm in rolling over a projec-
tion in the rock. Eventually, their desperate prisoner
On Monday
he was taken before the magistrates sitting at Milver-
ton, and remanded till the following day at Wiveliscombe.
Lacy Collard now had the desperado again in his
charge ; he took him to his own house, and after ironing
him heavily, chained him to the grate of an upper room,
congratulating themselves that they had " got him
now." Kelloway,, however, bed not been many seconds
left to himself when (Collard's back being turned) he
slipped his irons, except the band-bolts, heaved up the
sash, and made his escape from durance. We have not
heard of his re-capture.
LABLACH& A.NiD THE OPliliA.