The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-18 00:00:00

THE MORNING MAILS.

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The arrangements that have been-making by the Right
Honourable the Earl of Lonsdale, the Postitaaer-General,
with the Directors of the different railways, for the dispatch-
ing of morning as well as evening mails from one end of the
country to the other, are now entirely completed, and no
doubt will be duly appreciated by the public and the mer-
cantile body in the rapid conveyance of their correspondence.
The following is the Vost- office time for the transmission of
the mails from and to the termini of the various railways of
the metropolis :--
LONDON AND DOVER, 88 miles, at 8 30 a.m., performing
the distance in four hours, with the French and Ostend mails,
and the Overland Indian mails, &c.
LONDON AND BRIGHTON, 50It miles, at 10 30 a.m., per-
forming the distance in two hours.
LONDON AND Soum&Nu-roN, 77 miles, and Gosport, 88
miles, at 8 30 a.m., performing the distance to Southampton
in three hours twenty minutes, and Gosport in four hours,
with the branch mails to Portsmouth, &c. ; and the Penin-
sular, Mediterranean, India, and West Indies.
EASTERN COUNTIES.—London to Colchester, 50i miles,
830 a.m., in two hours and twenty minutes, with branch
mails to Newmarket, Cambridge, Norwich, &c.
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM, 114 miles, at 10 a.m., per-
forming the distance in four hours twenty-three minutes,
with the branch mails to Manchester, Liverpool, Preston,
Lancaster, Chester, Fleetwood and Belfast, Worcester, Chel-
tenham, and Gloucester ; Nottingham, Leicester, Derby,
Sheffield, Leeds, York, Darlington, Newcastle' Hull, Carlisle,
Edinburgh, Glasgow, &c. From London to Newcastle, 273
miles, in twelve hours and a half. Carlisle, 301 miles, in,
fifteen hours ; and Edinburgh, 391 miles, in twenty-three.
On and after the Ist August, the journey of the down day mail
train from London to Birmingham will be performed in four
hours, and the up trains in four hours and a half. These
trains to take the Irish and Scotch mails, and the United
States of America, &c.

GREAT WESTERN.—From London to Exeter, 1934 miles,
at 10 15 a.m., performing the distance in seven hours and
five minutes, with branch mails to Oxford, Cheltenham,
Cirencester, Bath, Bristol, Bridgewater, Taunton, Plymouth,
Devonport, Falmouth, and the West of England. Exeter
is 45 miles from Plymouth, Cirencester is 15 miles from Chel-
tenham, 12 miles from Stroud, and 17 miles from Gloucester,
The morning mails are made up as follows, in London :
The letter-boxes are open at the receiving houses until 7
a.m. for newspapers, and 8 a.m. for letters—those at the
branch offices, Charing-cross, Old Cavendish-street, and the
Borough, for newspapers until 7 30 a.m., and for letters until
8 a.m. At the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand,
and the branch office in Lombard-street, for newspapers
until a quarter before eight, and for letters until half-past
eight in the morning.

CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.
James Brigden, a cow-keeper and dairy-man, of Gulston-
street, Whitechapel, was yesterday brought before Mr. Bro-
derip, at the Thames Police- office, for final examination, on a
charge of manslaughter, in running his horse and cart over a
young married woman, named Ann Jones, who was killed.
on the spot.

The Coroner's jury returned a verdict, of Manslaughter
against Brigden last week, after a clear attempt on the part
of Mr. Pelham to make the transaction appear accidental.
The Magistrate again went into the case at length. The de-
ceased, who was the wife of a mariner now at sea, and had re-
cently opened a shop in Chamber-street, Goodman's-fields,
went out for an afternoon's walk on the Bth instant, with ft
female named Wilson, and they were passing along Stepney-
green, close to the edge of the footpath, when the prisoner,
who was in a beastly state of intoxication, drove along the
road with his horse and cart in a most furious and reckless
manner. Both females were knocked down, and the wheels
of the cart passed over the deceased, and she expired almost
immediately of the injuriesshe received. The prisoner, who
was thrown out of the cart by the shock, was himself hurt,
and he afterwards put the body of his victim in the
cart, having previously removed a calf that was in it,
and he drove at a furious rate towards the London
Hospital, where the mangled remains of his victim
were deposited, and he was given into custody. The witnesses
said there was another man in the cart, but the prisoner was
driving, and the horse was driven at a furious rate along a
much frequented road. Not the slightest caution was used,
and the utmost recklessness was exhibited by the prisoner
in his drunkenness. No one in the cart gave any warning
to the people in the road, and if they had done so it would
have been useless, as the horse was driven at the rate of 12
or 14 miles an hour close to the footpath.
Mr. Charles Bell, a pupil of the London Hospital, said the
deceased was brought there in a lifeless condition on the
afternoon of the Bth instant. The skull was injured, and
there was excessive hemorrhage from the nostrils, and also
from the ears and mouth. The body was severely bruised.
He was present at the post mortem examination. Death was
caused by an effusion of blood caused by a concussion of the
brain.

Mr. BRODEFUP committed the prisoner for trial for man-
slaughter, on which Mr. Pelham said he had an application
to make that the prisoner should be admitted to bail. The
evidence given before the Coroner raised something like a
presumption that the occurrence was accidental.
Mr. BRODERIP :—Accident! what decision did the Coro-
ner's jury come to ?
Mr. Pelham said their verdict certainly was manslaughter
against the prisoner. His client deeply regretted the lament-
able occurrence. The prisoner was a most respectable man,
and had long carried on an extensive business with credit to
himself and family, and his friends were ready to put in bail
to any amount. A month would elapse before the commence-.
ment of the sessions, and an application to the judges for bail
would be attended with trouble and expense he was desirous
to avoid.

Mr. BRODERIP said there was a good deal of furious driv-
ing going on, and people were hourly in danger of being run
over. In this case a young woman had been hurried out of
life by a drunken man, owing to his reckless and illegal
driving. The act was so clearly one of manslaughter that he
could not take bail, and he was moreover justified in refusing
it by the view taken of the case by the Coroner's jury, which
was the same as his own. As the case was presented before
him it was a very aggravated one, and he must refer the pri-
soner's solicitor to the judges if he wished to obtain bail for
him, and he should be so advised.—The prisoner was then
committed, both on the Coroner's warrant and the warrant of
the Magistrate.

SALARY OF THE CLERK OF THE CROWN YN
CHANcEnr.—The following resolutions were last night agreed
to, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Greene, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Sir George Clerk :-
1. " That a yearly salary of 1,000/. be paid to, the Clerk of
*the Crown in Chancery, in lieu of the salary now paid to that
officer."

2. " That provision be made, out of the Consolidated Fund
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for
making good any deficiency which may occur in the Fee
Fund of the Office of the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery."
NEW HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE CHEST.—
We understand, in consequence of the success which has
attended Dr. Maddock, of the Dispensary, Judd-street,
Brunswick-square, in his treatment of consumption, asthma,
and many other complaints of the organs of breathing, and
also of the heart, by inhalation, or the local application of
remedies to the seat of disease, it has been proposed to open
an hospital in the northern part of the:metropolis, for the
purpose of relieving many thousands of the humbler classes
who annually suffer from these affections. In addition to
the advantages to be reaped by the poor by the institution,
it is to be hoped that it will be the means of making the
above mode of practice more generally known and arpre-
ciated by the medical profession.
THE BATHING SEASON.-REMEDIES TO BE !AppiAED
IN CASES OF DROWNING, &C.—The bathing srason being
now in its height, the Royal Humane Society
have caused
to be printed and circulated a small circular, containing the
methods of treatment to be observed in rec.jvery of persons
apparently drowned after they are taken ,Jut of the water.
The following remedies for adoption will be found of the
greatest importance :—" Send quickly for medical assistance ;
lose no time, avoid all rough usage, never hold the body up
by the feet nor roll it on casks ; do not inject tobacco smoke
or infusion of tobacco, nor rub the body IN,ith salt or spirits."
The foregoing are cautions, the following are the reme-
dies :—" Convey the body carefully, with the head and
shoulders supported in a raised position, to the nearest
house; strip the body and rub it dry, then wrap it in hot
blankets, and place it in a warm bed 'in a lower chamber ;
wipe and cleanse the mouth and nostrils. In order to re-
store the natural warmth of the body wove a heated covered
warming-pan over the back and spine; put bladders or
bottles of hot water or heated bricks to the pit of the
stomach, the arm pits, between the thighs, and to the soles
of the feet ; foment the body with hot flannels, but, it' possible,
immerse it in a warm bath, as hot as the hand can bear
without pair., as this is preferable to the other means for
restoring warmth ; rub the body briskly with the hands, but
do not, however, suspend the use of the other means at the
same time; apply sal volatile or hartshorn to the nostrils. On
restoration to life, if the power of swallowing be returned,
small quantities of warm wine or weak brandy and water
may be given. The patient should be kept in bed, and a dis-
position to sleep encouraged. Great care is requisite to main-
tain the restored and at the same time to prevent undue ex-
citement. The treatment recommended by the Society is to
be persevered in for three or four hours, as it is an erroneous
opinion that persons are irrecoverable because animation does
not soon make its appearance'

Some curiously large strawberries .were last week
shown in Ludlow, grown by Mr. Richard liance ; they were
of the Elton sort, some measuring upwards• of six inches ire
circumference, and of the extraordinary weight of one ounce
three pennyweights five grains, a few of which was trans—
mitted to a d►stance by post.—Ten Town's Messenger.