BRIDGE DISASTER TO COACH. Mr. Nobbs’ graphic account of the Lugg Bridge accident recalls the more calamitous one which befell the Glasgow and Carlisle coach on the 25th October, 1801. The circumstances were alike in both cases, but the results of the earlier disaster were much more grave. The bridge was one spanning the river Evan, between Elvanfoot and Beattock; it had collapsed under stress of a flood following a sudden thaw, and at about ten o’clock at night the coach plunged into the rocky bed of the stream. Two outside passengers were killed on the spot, and the coachman sustained such injuries that he died some days afterwards. The inside passengers, a lady and three gentlemen, and the guard, escaped with injuries more or less severe. Three of the horses were killed, and the coach was smashed to pieces. ROBBERY OF MAILS. If Mr. Nobbs had been on the road some twenty or thirty years earlier he might have acquired a larger experience of the manners and customs of highwaymen—or perhaps we should say mail robbers,—for the picturesque highwayman of romance is conspicuously absent from Post Office annals. In this connexion it may be interesting to give the text of two or three Post Office Notices issued early in the century. This one is typical of many others circulated about the same time:— General Post Office, _Tuesday_, 27_th_ _October_, 1812. About 7 o’clock on the Evening of Monday the 26th instant, the LEEDS Mail-Coach was robbed of the Bags of Letters for London, described at Foot, between Kettering and Higham Ferrers, and within 3 Miles of Higham Ferrers, by forcing the Lock of the Mail Box. The Bags stolen are, Halifax of the 25th. Chesterfield ditto Bradford ditto Mansfield ditto Leeds ditto Nottingham 26th. Wakefield ditto Melton Mowbray ditto Huddersfield ditto Oakham ditto Barnsley ditto Uppingham ditto Sheffield ditto Kettering ditto Rotherham ditto Thrapstone ditto _Whoever shall apprehend the Person or Persons who committed the said Robbery_, _will be entitled to a Reward of_ TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, _one Moiety to be paid on Commitment for Trial_, _and the other Moiety on Conviction_. _If an Accomplice in the Robbery will surrender himself and make Discovery_, _whereby one or more of the Persons concerned therein shall be apprehended and brought to Justice_, _such Discoverer will be entitled to the said Reward_, _and be admitted an Evidence for the Crown_. By Command of the Postmaster-General, F. FREELING, Secretary.