ACCIDENT TO THE LONDON AND POOLE MAIL. 159 



post at tlie corner of Bury Street, the uext 

 street to Market Street, with such force that 

 she broke the spine of her back. 



Another accident occurred on the 20th. The 

 turnpike gate at Matterby, between Winchester 

 and Alresford, is placed at the foot of a hill. 

 The horses of the London and Poole Mail, 

 having become unmanageable at the top of 

 the hill, descended it at a furious gallop, and 

 came so violently in contact with the gate- 

 post, that the post itself was broken off and 

 carried to a considerable distance. One of the 

 wheel-horses had his brains knocked out by 

 the concussion, and the passengers were thrown 

 nearly twenty yards from the coach. One of 

 them was severely injured, but none were 

 killed. The coachman bad three ribs and his 

 right arm broken, his eye knocked out, and 

 his head otherwise so bruised and cut that 

 blood flowed copiously from his mouth, nose, 

 and ears. The guard saved himself by lying 

 down on the footboard. The coach, not- 

 withstanding the shock, was not over- 

 turned. 



Again, on the 23rd, as the Mail from 

 Barnstaple to Bristol had changed horses at 

 AVivelscombe, and the coachman was about 



