The Sun. — London, England, 1832-04-26 00:00:00

THE &UN - EI : PRESSES, tc. Frees the Scotsman, Wednesday, April 18.) On Sunday last, at two o'clock, the most splendid turn -out (Wale citizens that ever took place since the Royal visit, was witnessed at the Post.office, awaiting the arrival of the mail, which was expected to bring the division of the Lards upon the " people's Bill." From the Register Office to the Calton_ stairs, the street was occupied by a dense mass of persons, all belonging to the respectable classes of society, and a consWer able number of ladies and gentlemen took up their station on the Calton-hill. The weather was genial, with bright sun. shine, and the appearance of so vast a multitude, congregated together by feelings of common anxiety for the nation's fate, was redolent of moral beauty, and in scenic effect highly im posing. We should think from 12 to 15,000 individuals awaited the mail curricle, and besides, the two bridges were crop l 9 with passengers, who lingered on their way to citurtA, until the post came in. Although the mail did not tirin7, the wished for news, an express was expected to arrive Sfrortly afterwards ; and so great was the public anxiety on thi - , occasion, that watch was kept by numerous groups during the whole of the after noon. In the evening hundreds of all classes assembled in St. .tsidrew.square, around Mes-srs. Taylor Smith and Co.'s ge neral newspaper and advveasing office, and waited in eager ex. pectation the arrival of the anticipated express, Abort seven o'clock a general cr . ,- was heard to clear the way, when-a chariot and four drove up to the door with an extraordinary express from the Proprietors of The Soar, bringing the debate on the all, engrossing question, which only terminated the pre ceding morning at seven o'clock. The exprecn had posted down in the short space of thirty-six boars, and the news was tho.s received in Edinburgh about ninetten hours before tl'.'e arrival of the regular mail, When the majority For the :second reading of the Bill was announced, - a Unanimous shout of approbation was given by the joyful multitude assembled. The exertions made epee this important occa sion, cannot be too much eulogised, The cost of the ex. press must be great, but the expenditure of money c!aitUs not a tithe of our gratitude in comparison with the speedy &- fusion of that intelli gence ' which has brightened up trie country from end to end, and replaced with joy and contentment the fearful despondency of a mighty nation, The drivers of the express were decorated with broad white ribands and rosets, and by this sign, and the slashing pace at which the vehi cle drove, the villages where no stoppage took place knew at once they carried the message of peace--a favourable division on the Bill. We understand they were loudly cheered t.ltrough all the towns which they passed. At Ha:svick, the good people stormed the reading-room—Sun day though it was—and brought a gesltieman out with rie Sur., whom they placed upon an old dyke, and coortiled him to read aloud the words of the oracle. At Glorgow the news were received on Sunday night with the Kinost gratification. In the coffee-rooms the intelligent!!! w.ts hailed with cheers, and on Monday, throughout the city And suburbs numerous nags were unfurled from the wiudOws and house-tope in hottair of the event. At Paisley the inhabitants hailed the Ilea's with equal enthusiasm. During the whole of Mtifiday flags were seen flying in all directions of the town- Sattlig which a larg e tricolour bare a conspicuous part. preparations are already in course there for getting up an 'extensive range of petitions. Greenock was also in ecstacy en the arrival of the news, and next day the Trades' banners were unfurled, as also the flag from the steeple. It is stated, that had it not been for the alarming state of cholera there, public demonstrations of joy of a more pointed nature would have been manifested. We have only to add, that in our own city the inhabitants are so much gratified by the happy issue Oh Reform, that they scarcely know in what way to demonstrate their feelings cor rectly. Numerous parties met on Sunday evening to ex. change congratulations, and dinner parties were got . Op on Mouday for th- same object. At Leith some heerty libations were also bumpered to the triumph of Reform, and the vessels in the Wet Docks and Harbour were gayly decorated with flags full mast high. We shall be ambled on Saturday, when the country papers have reached us, to give a more detailed account of the " sensation" produced throughout Scotland by the glorious news; in the meantime we augur we ll f b r the next quarter's revenue. While we write, these is something on the tapis here for a public demonstration, which will be ex plained in another paragraph. ----- (Fro in the Dronfriesandfilalktuay Courier, Tuesday, April 17.) THE BlLL—During the interval of public worship on Sabbath last, we received an express from London, via Lock erby, covering two copies of The Sun newspaper, containing the division in the House of Lords on Saturday morning, and an nouncing the inexpressibly glad tidings that the second reading of " the Bill" had been carried by a majority of Nine. A stanch Reformer who saw the messenger alight, and anon wend his way to our domicile, followed in t fteathless haste, in the full be lief that something extraordinary was going forward, and in the hope of gaining the earliest possible intelligence of a measure big with the fate of the British empire. Nor were his expec tations disappollittd The packet was easily opened, and the more so that ft had obviously been opened previously. A chaise mnd four, careering at the rate of fifteen miles per hour, changed horses at Lockerby on Sunday, re.started in a twinkling; and iu the interim, a messenger, whom public rumour, by a sort of forced creation, elevated to the dignity of the editor of The Sun, ordered our packet to be despatched by a post-boy, well mounted, and with positire instructions to spare neither whip nor spur, even if the "'galled jade should wince." The lieges in Lockerby stood,as became them, on the qui vice; and, all things considered, we excuse them from our hearts for peeping into, without detaining, our precious packet ! In fact, we sin cerely rejoice that they read it, and that through their instru mentality, the shepherds in Eskdalemuir, and other remote and secluded districts, were put in possession of the glorious news some hours sooner than the members of either the Glasgow or Edinburgh Union! The chaise and four al luded to passed Beattock for Glasgow at half-past one o'clock, as we learn from a gentleman who happened ►o be on the spot ; and two hours earlier a similar con veyance left the city of Carlisle for Edinburgh —so that by six or seven o'clock the news would be known on the banks of the Forth and the Clyde, and nearly as speedily in Ben frewshire. Dumbarton, and the kingdom of Fife. One of the two Journals so kindly transmitted to us, we immediately de spatched to the Commercial Reading-room, agreeably to in. structions received from Mr. 31. Young; and to confess the truth, the intelligence flew like wildfire, and was conveyed before the sun went down , to at least a dozen surrounding pa rishes. Still there was no expression of feeling inconsistent with the sanctity of the Sabbath, beyond a few friendly greet. ings en the streets. The Scotsman of Saturday states that for days previous thousands had surrounded the Post office in the expectation of learning the result of the division; and a simi. lar proof of "re-action" was witnessed in Dumfries, although on a much smaller scale. And if the 14th of April had hap pened to be a week day, certain we are that the welkin would have - rung with :dads elicited by the consummation of a na. tion's hopes; and it is even possible that the town bells would have been heard sounding, not " The Downfall of Pa ris," but the Downfall of the Rotten Burgh System! The de. bate in the House of Lords closed on Saturday, at seven o'clock—a day that will ever be memorable in our annals—and by eight, or shortly atter it, the public-spirited Proprietors of The Sun had expresses on every aorta and acne cave of Great Britain, Our own cleared a distance of 340 miles in 29 hours, and must have travelled at the rate, including stoppages, of snore than 12 miles per hour. But the Musical Doctor said or sung long ago, in the rejected prologue for Old Drury, which he insisted was far better than Byron's-- " When energising objects men pursue, What are the prodigies they will not do !" The post-office, we believe, in such cases, issues an order which franks the tolls; but still the other expenses must be such as would harry a poor provincialist out of house and hall, and compel him to live on short commons for as long a period as has elapsed since the first introduction of the Reform Bill. But still the gentlemen alluded to will not go without their reward, and we can honestly assure them that their exertions have been appreciated to the extent of three hearty cheers, and nu merous private expressions of obligation by the whole reforming public of Dumfries. (From the teedock Adecrtiser, Tuesday, April 17., The exertions of The Sun London daily paper, in communi cating to the provinces the latest intelligence of the Parlia mentary proceedings of the day—sometimes at a heavy pecu niary loss to the proprietors in forwarding expresses—has been often noticed and gratefully acknowledged by the provincial press. But the important debate and division in the House of Lords on the second reading of the Reform Bill, has afforded an opportunity, of which the Proprietors of The Sun have fully availed themselves, not only to outstrip all competitors in this mode of gaining public favour, but likewise of out.doing its own past efforts to win it. The division did not take place till the morning of Saturday was far advanced, yet, at seven o'clock, The Sun was issued with nearly twenty -three - columns of the final debate, when Mr. Murdo Young, Editor and Co- Proprietor, left the metropolis in a post-chaise and four, with copies, and arrived in Glasgow on Sunday evening, in the in credible short space of thirty-six hours. We have no doubt Mr. Young liberally distributed his interesting news by the way; but we would call the attention of our local readers to the fact, that even when arrived at his journey's end, his zeal for its extension throughout the West of Scotland did not abate or repose a moment. In conjunction with his agent, Mr. Atkinson, he immediately despatched a rider to Paisley and this town with copies; and we have to acknowledge, that the first of these, which was delivered here, accompanied by a polite note from Mr. Young, was put into our hands by his messenger at eleven o'clock. Along with our copy was one for each of the Coffee-rooms, but which (they being shut an hour before) could not be Perused there till morning. We do not doubt that the managers of the rooms will take an opportunity of thanking Mr. Young for his spirited exertions and polite attention, and it: gives much pleasure to state that to these, exclusively, we are indebted for being enabled to anticipate our usual period of publication, and to place before our readers the fullest abstract our time and limits will permit, of tht closing discussion on the second reading. (From the Derby Reporter, Thursday, Apyill9.) - • THE REFORM BILL.—The last week has been one of in. -tense anxiety and expectation, with all classes and parties, throughout this county—we may truly say this empire, for . there is no place so isolated that the inhabitants do not feel _ that weal or woe will succeed the fate of the important BilL now lying upon the tablO of the House of Lords. During the' whole of Wednesday and Thursday till seven o'clock at night, the people lingered in the streets with a restless, unsettled air, of incapable of applying themselves steadily td their various ceilings while there was the least probability of the arrival o? an express with the division of the Lords on the Reform Bill Numerous calls were made at our ()dice throughout both days! by the manufacturers and tradesmen of the town, and by per. I sons from the country, to make inquiries on the all-engrossing subject. The same interest was discovered on the Saturday, and in the afternoon the people began to assemble in large numbers, in the full confidence that somethiog Would soon beheard of the Bill. At last a buz was heard running along the streets that annotsnced, by a kilt} rsilblegr4.ls, the approach or. messenger, wad in five minatts after diseridinan galirsrped up bearing the express from The Sun office, and 4 :sllvered at our office, amid the stmuts of 4 sa multitude - a' reformers, The Sun Paper, an, bouncing the eherting fact that the Bill had been . teNt second time b'y a majority of nine. Nothing mall exceed the eagerness tiisplayesl to ascertain the truffs26f this statement, and the day it difibsed when it was etttisfactorily authenticated by Use exhibition of The Sr.,. paper. The intelligence spread like wildfire throng's lne country, by numerous gentlemen, mes epgeis, gentlemen's servants, who were waiting to carry oßthe glad tidings in all directions. The division did not take, place till a quarter-past kWh o'clock on Saturday incrisiiitt The Sun exprr,rs was received here five minutes Wet ste tire, and allowing an hour for the necessary arraosfiiiiients for printing, the journey of 126 miles was peribrtned in the istonishing,ly short time ofeight hours anti 'forty minutes. This express was a branch (torsi tobilinnrobgb, the main proceeding front thence to Nottlngirani, where it arrived z fete Minutes before five ct lock, esti proceeded 'for S t heffieitt, York, and Scotland, with the intermediate tiAveys, Another express, we understand, was sent from the same office, through Birmingham, 41 , chester, kis-en - mot, and Ireland. Such public—eofr-ted exertions, attended as they are by immense expenses, are deserving of Vublic patronage and support. We are happy to add that the ebul lition of public fee4t:'..g quietly subsided without any breach of the peare, trh7itild the Bill happily pass into a law, unimpaired in el!, essential principles, we hope it will be found in its 61s1 iitions so truly beneficial to the country, that IN Wtiole cora =may will settle down again into '4 :state of quiet and con tentment, waiting patiently fir ttlYe full measure of prosperity which may fairly be Wfst cted from its wise and salutary enactments r,t;- 'corn the Live; 72e8.; Cowier, Wednesday, April 18,) The result of the debate on the second reading of the netorin Bill was waited for here last night by a considerable eroWd with no small interest and anxiety. The news was fit-st ednironni:. cated by the guard of the Defiance coach, frau Aberdeen (who had received it from The Sea express), about an hour before the arrival of the raail, and when the latter did come, confirm ing the intelligence, and dispelling all doubts, cheers both loud and long were raised upon the occasion. (From the Elgin Courier, Friday, April la) Earl Grey then rose and moved the second reading of the Worm Bill. From the length of the Prn:ler's speech, as given in full by The Sun, he must have spoken from two to three hours, Credit .Idrertiser, Friday, April 20.; nESPA . TeIf.—By the kindness of the Proprietor of The :Wet Lbndon newspaper we received at noon on Sunday a copy a that paper, published on Saturday morning, after a division, with a full report of all the speeches, &c. ;From the Dublin :11orning Post, Monday, April Id.) At three o'clock yesterday, we were favoured with an ex press edition of The Sun of Friday, which brought the closing of ti►t debate in the Lords on the second reading of the Re fornt Bill. (From the Doncaster Gazette, Friday, April 20. ) The intelligence of the result of the division on the second reading of the Reform Bill reached this town, by express from The Sun Office, at half-past ten on Saturday night. (From the Norwich Mercury, Friday, April 20.) The news of the second reading of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords having reached Lynn on Saturday night, the bells of St. Margaret's • Church chimed a merry peal in celebra tion of the event. (From the York Chronicle, Thursday, April 12.) DESPATCH.— The Sun newspaper of Monday was received In this city at half-past five on Tuesday evening, containing the whole of Lord Grey's opening speech on moving the second reading of the Reform Bill. The paper gave six columns of the proceedings in Parliament on Monday evening. (From the lie(fast News Letter, Tuesday, April 10. EXPRESS—IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT—FRIDAY.— We have again to acknowledge our obligations to Messrs. Johnston and Co., by whose extraordinary express we were last night favoured with The Sun of Saturday evening, contain ing the whole of the Parliamentary debates of the previous night. (From the Durham Chronicle, Friday, April la) In the House of Lords this evening, (we learn from a second edition of The Sun) the debate on the Reform Bill was re sumed by Lord Winchilsea, who spoke at considerable length against the Bill going into Committee, and was still in pos session of the House when the latest account came away. • (From Saunders's Metes Letter, Monday, April IR) By an extraordinary exertion of The Sun newspaper, me are enabled to present our readers, this day, with the conclusion of the debate on the second reading of the Reform Bill. It was received through Messrs. Johnstons, Newspaper -agents, via Holyhead. (From the Leeds Patriot, Saturday, April The majority for the second reading of the Reform Bill was greater than the friends of the Bill had expected, and the gratifying intelligence arrived in Leeds by express from The Sun newspaper at ten o'clock on Saturday evening. (From the Tipperary Free Press, Wednesday, April 16.) We 'Free Press) have been duly favoured with express edi. tions of The Sun of Saturday morning and of. Saturday even. ing, and Cannot in justice withhold the tribute of our admira• tion at the astonishing efforts made by that spirited journal or this, as well as on other occasions of importance to the country. From the Limerick Herald, Monday, April la) By the great exertions of Messrs. Johnston, of Dublin, and of the Proprietors of The Sun Can express edition of which was published in London on Saturday morning, at eight o'clock, and received here at eight o'clock this morning), we are enabled to give our readers a report of the important debate and divi sion in the Lords. (From the Glasgow Chronicle, Wednesday, April II.) We are to-night indebted to the spirited exertions of The Sun newspaper, for a report of the whole of the speech of Earl Grey, in moving the second reading of the Reform Bill, thus enabling us to put into the hands of our readers that important part of the debate, forty.eight hours before we could have done so in usual circumstances. From the Hull Advertiser, Friday, April 13.) The Proprietors of The Sun newspaper continue their spirited career. We have to thank them 'for an express copy of that journal, containing the whole of Lord Grey's speech, which reached us early on Wednesday morning —upwards of twelve hours before its arrival in the regular course. (From the Brighton Gazette, Thursday, April 19.) The evening papers are making extraordinary exertions. On Saturday last The Sun arrived at Brighton in less thanfive hours after the division on the Reform Bill, containing upwards of nineteen columns of closely printed debate up to the close; and the Courier was here very shortly afterwards. (From the Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday, April 18.) On Monday evening an express from The Sun newspaper brought to Aberdeen the debate and division on the second reading of the Reform Bill. To the exertions of this enterprising journal the community, in common with ourselves and all the newspapers throughout the country, arc all indebted for being so early put in possession of the important intelligence. (From the Westmoreland Gazette, Saturday, April 21.) EXPRESS.—An express from The Sun office arrived here on Sunday morning last before five o'clock, bringing an ac count that the Reform Bill had passed the second reading in the House of Lords. In less than twenty-two hours after the division had been declared, we had the news at the distance of 260 miles from the metropolis. (From the Preston Pilot, Saturday, April :21 ) DESPATCH.—The news of the division on Saturday morn ing arrived from The Sun Office at this town a little before twelve o'clock the same night. The express could not have left town till near nine, so that it was only fifteen hours on the road, and must consequently have been conveyed at the rate of fifteen miles an hour. :From the Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier, Tuesday, April 17.) By last evening's coach from Dublin, we were favourQ by those indefatigable and successful agents for the Press, Messrs. Johnston and Co. of Dublin, with a copy of an express edition of The Sun, containing a full report of the debate in the Lords, down to the division. Saturday's mail arrived this morning in course. (From the Aberdeen Observer, Friday, April 13.) By the extraordinary exertions of the spirited Proprietors of The Snu newspaper, we were favoured yesterday with an ex press edition of that paper, which brought the proceedings in the House of Lords down to nine o'clock on Monday evening, and furnished us with the conclusion of Earl Grey's speech on moving the second reading of the Reform Bill. (From the Dublin Morning Register, Thursday, April Pi) Monday evening, as our readers are aware, was fixed for the second reading of the Reform BilL The proceedings are re ported up to nine o'clock in successive editions of The Sun, and Lord Grey's opening speech is given in full even to the con. elusion. This is an extraordinary anticipation of the or dinary channels of intelligence, and reflects the greatest credit on the activity and enterprise of the conductors of that paper. ;From the Portsmouth Herald, Sunday, April S.) We are again indebted to The Sun Newspaper for the ear liest intelligence of the proceedings in the House of Lords on the momentous occasion of the division on the second reading of the Reform Bill. We acknowledge with our best thanks the receipt of the express edition of that paper, which gave us a full report of the debate at half-past four o'clock yesterday afternoon. (Froto the Reading Mercury, Saturday, April H.) We have to express our obligations, and those of the inhabi tants of this part of the country, to the Editors of the Courier and The Sun, for copies of their papers, containing full reports of the important debate, which reached our office as early as ten o'clock this morning. The Sun had about five minutes' start of the courier. The public can have no idea of the exertions that must have been made by the spirited Con. ductors of the above journals the House did not adjourn till seven,—so that the decisiOn was carried from Westminster to the offices in the Strand, there composed, prepared for the pres., and printed, and afterwaids conveyed a distance of forty two miles, in the short space of three hours! The exore sses proceeded hence for Bri s t o l w ith t h e satiic rabidity. Immense anxiety was visible among en cases to learn the decision, and the result was Wila with general and enthusiastic joy, (From the (Edinburgh) New North Briton, April 21.) CUPAR.—The intense interest excited in Scotland in re gard to the fate of the Reform Bill, at its second reading in the House of Lords, was met by exertions commensurate with the occasion on the part of the spirited Preprietlys tf ire Sun. The anxiously looked for intelligetict terq by 11 PICab's coach earl• en Mmida'k, The news were quickly spread— gladetess r*rk , idid the political atmosphere; save a few dingy IfOil, whose darkness rendered the general cheerfulness more apparent—and the merry sounds of tvells were soon heard ex tending themselves in every direction. The Sun, arrived in tdinturgh in toe remarkably short space of 36 hours after the diVlsion; which took place on Saturday morning, at seven o'clock (From the Shrewsbury Chronic?e of Ptiday, April 20.) The arrival in thi s tow n , on Saturday night, of theintelli. gencc of IS ' akcess of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords, tt2'3ited great joy. The news was expected by the Wonder Coach, at eleven o'clock at night, and nearly three hundred persons assembled long before its arrival at the. Lion Trn;', rtd welcomed the majority of Nine ,by loud "cliteting :—the chief streets were traversed atat ITACI-day, and gratulations were ex_ changed ber.:f6S Passengers. The Morning Chronicle and !"c`e !,"iin Newspapers arrived at the News-room, St. John's_ hill, on that evening, giving the debates, which concluded only at seven o'clock that morning. (From the Glasgow Chronicle, Monday, April 16) By the unparalleled et'zertiOns of the Proprietors Of The Sun we are again put in possessron, no lesb than tWenty houri hi ad vance of the mail, of the 151'0mi:ling! in the House of Lords on the Reform Bill, with the division on the second reading. The. debate terminated at seven o'clock on Saturday morning, the ieport, to the extent of twenty-two columns and a half, was printed before eight, at which hour Mr. Young, the Editor ; left London in a chaise and four, and arrived at Mr. Atkin_ son's at half-past seven . o'clock, having Accomplished the journey in thirty.five hours and a half—including about three hours' delay from the difficulty of procuring good horses. (From the Air Advertiser, Thursday, April 19.) By the praiseworthy exertions of The Sun newspaper the news of the second reading of the Reform Bill, for which the people were waiting in anxious suspense, reached this place on Monday morning, and was received with heartfelt gratitude towards those who have so efficiently done their duty to their country. But as the rejoicings of the people met a check on a former occasion, they with prudent caution refrained from giving full vent to their feelings. In the evening some guns were Bred and squibs thrown, and a few flags displayed from the windows. A similar expression of feeling was made in almost every town and village of the country. (From the Kilmarnock Chronicle, Wednesday, April 18.) The unparalleled and almost incredible exertions of the Edi tor of The Sun London paper having brought us on Monday morning the result of the second reading of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords, the good news rapidly spread, and af forded much gratification to all classes. Splendid flags were immediately hoisted and seen flaunting in every direction from every accessible and commanding eminence in town and suburbs, and in the evening there was a plentiful display of all the varieties of squibs and rockets, and other fire-works, with a bonfire at the Cross—every thing unquestionably demon strated the total indifference of the community to the speedy and proper settlement of this great national question. (From the Maidstone Journal, Tuesday, April 17.) We beg to tender our best thanks to Mr. Murdo Young, Editor of The Sun Evening Paper, for his politeness in for warding us a copy of The Sun by express, on Saturday, contain ing the debate and division on the second reading of the Reform Bill. The House of Lords adjourned at seven o'clock on Sa turday morning, and, by the most extraordinary exertion, The Sun, containing twenty columns and a half of the proceedings, was received in Maidstone (35 miles from London) in about five hours afterwards, and six hours before the arrival of any other paper. To ourselves, personally, this unparalleled expedition proved extremely convenient, and to the public generally highly gratifying. (From the liveman's Journal, Monday, April 16.) For this debate and division--the most important to the British empire, that, perhaps, ever took place in the House of Peers, we are indebted to The Sun, whose exertions on all im portant occasions have been very great, but are in the present instance unparalleled. It is almost inconceivable how speeches that were spoken, and a division that took place in 'Westminster at half-past seven o'clock on Saturday morning, could reach Dublin, in print, at two o'clock on Sunday. This most ex traordinary effort of The Sun deserves the highest praise from every individual interested in the question—and who is not ? in the British empire. The express was delivered at our office at twenty minutes past two yesterday, by the Messrs. Johnston and Co., Newspaper agents, Eden quay. (From the Scottish Guardian, Tuesday, April 17.) By a most astonishing effort on the part of Mr. Young, Editor of The Sun newspaper, the result of the division of the House of Lords, with the close of the debate, reached Glasgow on Sabbath night at half-past seven, thirty-six hours after the deci sion took place. Mr. Young, personally, rode the express. Such liberal exertions for the early satisfaction of the country, de_ mand an adequate meed of support and admiration. The news was received in the Trongate by an immense concourse of people, without any tumultuous demonstrations ofjoy ;. but when Mr. Young drove up to the New Exchange with copies of his publi cation, and Mr. Atkinson announced the main point of the in telligence to the mob outside, they manifested their satisfaction by three loud and continued cheers—an expression of feeling the evening of the Sabbath could very well have dispensed with. (From the Newry Telegraph, Tuesday, April 17.) SECOND READING OF THE REFORM BILL CAR. RIED BY A MAJORITY OF NlNE!—Through the ex. traordinary and really unprecedented exertions of our agents (Messrs. Johnston and Co.), we received yesterday morning by express The Sun of Saturday, which paper; by an effort of in. dustry and skill but seldom, very seldom, indeed, equalled, con. tained the fourth and last night's debate on the Reform Bill, extending over not less than one-and-twenty columns, toge ther with the result of the division, which occurred at seven o'clock on Saturday morning By this means we have been put in possession (at least twelve hours earlier than we ex pected) of the important and, under all the circumstances, we will add, glorious fact, that the Bill has been carried through a second reading by a majority of Nine. (From the Hull Packet and HumberMercury, Tuesday,Aprill7.) We have merely space, in the present number, to congra. tulate our readers on the second reading of the Bill for Par liamentary Reform, in the House of Lords, which was carried by a majority of nine, at seven o'clock on Saturday morning, after a most interesting and animated debate of four nights' duration. The news reached this town on Sunday morning, by the York mail, through the medium of an express, trans mitted to Leeds by the Proprietors of The Sun evening paper, who thus, as on many previous occasions, distinguished them selves by their exertions in forwarding the earliest intelli gence of this important event through the country. The paper contained a full and complete report of the closing de. bate, with the division. (From the Wakefield and Halifax Journal, Thursday, Aprill9.) THE SUN NE WSPA PER.—The proprietors of this spirited journal, evei ready to give the earliest possible intelli gence on any momentous question, despatched a special Ines. senger immediately after the division of the House of Lords on the second reading of the Reform Bill, who reached Wakefield in the unparalleled short space of time of fourteen hours ! The division did not take place until after seven o'clock on Saturday morning, and copies of The Sun newspaper, containing the divi. sion and upwards of twenty columns of the debates, were received at the Wakifield Journal Office at a quarter past ten o'clock the same night. A distance of more than 184 miles' Such exertion reflects the highest credit on the conductors of that paper. ( jc.i-esier Herald, Wednesday, April IS.) The Sun paper express arrived in this town on Saturday last about a quarter past three, bringing the division in the House of Lords on the Reform Bill. In about ten minutes after, another express also arrived, and if we might judge from the rate the former was going at it did not appear likely that it would be overtaken this side of Manchester. We feel much obliged to the Editor of The Sun for dropping us a paper on the way. One of the horses in The Sun express, belong. ins , to Mr Flint, of Harborough, fell at Glenn, and we under stand, died since. Another of the horses, with great difficulty reached this town, but in so jaded a state, that on returning to Harborough, it was obliged to be taken into the White Horse, at Oadby, where it soon after expired. (From the Edinburgh Advertiser, Tuesday, April 17.) EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS.—By the unparalleled exertions o. the Proprietors of The Sun newspaper, an extraor dinary express, bringing the division on the second reading of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords, arrived at Messrs. Jas. Taylor Smith and Co.'s General Newspaper and Adver tising Office, St. Andrew square, on the evening of the 15th inst.:at seven o'clock. Thus, by the unparalleled exertions made on the present occasion, the debates were perused at length in Edinburgh in the short space of thirty-six hours after the divi sion took place, a circumstance altogether unprecedented. Shortly after the express arrived in Edinburgh, it proceeded withj.he same rapidity to the north, thus being foremost in putting the country in possession of the result of one of the most important questions that has ever come before Parliament. We understand that these great exertions will he continued on all important occasions. (From the Shdfield Iris, Tuesday, April 17.) SECOND READING OF THE REFORM BILL.— ARRIVAL OF THE NEWS IN SHEFFIELD.—On Saturday afternoon the most intense anxiety was manifested in this town, pending the arrival of the decision of the House of Lords upon the second reading of the Bill. As it was generally understood that expresses .were arranged t o convey the Intel. persons, probably some t h ousands, crowded the ligence from London hither the shortest p oss ibl e t i me, great the town along Sheffield Moor, or were as _ sernbled in the old Hay-market, in f ront of the Tontine entrance nunibers ° o f f Inn, all wound up in the same eage r expectation of the news. At twenty-five minutes past eight, The Stgn arrived by Hr. Wiley, of the Sun Tavern, gay -Market.. 7 11 ,14 - press was immediately forwarded to Leeds. 'The inteo ligence of the result rapidly spread through the town, and in a short time the " shooting" of the bells at the parish church confirmed the impretsio n of those who were out of reach Of the more detailed information, and of course excited, at a still greater distance, in the minds of not a few non-political personages, very simple inquiries as to what had happened that the bells should be ringing at that time of night I Among the wonders of the present day, certainly not the least wonderful is the prompt transmission of intelligence from the metro_ polls to the provinces : in the present instance ) the debate did not terminate thitll Ed=en o eiock,ona6rday i*q-nitig in the Molise of Loids', leas repOrted at length', i3et tip ih type, and read at the distance of 160 miles from London, in the incredibly short space of about ttVelt-e hours. (From the New North Briton, Wednesday, April is REFORM BILL—SECOND READING CARRIED.— The renewed debate in the HOuse of Lords terminated .at an early hour on Saturday Morning, On,a di•Ailohlin thiell ihe second reading. w'rs Carried by a majority of Nine. This is a result on which we congratulate the country—not in pas ' sinnate exu'tation, but in calm and grave sincerity of heart, which forbids us to indulge in any of the lighter manifestations of joy. We congratulate the country on this step bring gained ; for it is not only a favonrable stet; in 'adirance, bat had the result been diffbi!ert, And the Bill been rejected, no nfirr +;till foretell the heart-burning and heart sickening con tentions and movements which would inevitably have followed. Now, however, the cause of Reform wears a very different aspect; and this last discussion and its issue have given an impulse to it of an effectual and more benignant character. The necessity, the expediency of Reform, is conceded on all hands, with greater or less frankness or reluctance. A majo rity of the Uppet House has resolved to take into Considera_ tioli the rheagirre and degree of that Reform which may prove beneficial to the empire : and we have not a doubt, though some modifications may take place on the Bill as sent up from the Commons, that ere long a genuine and efficient law will be enacted for correcting the evils of the present system of repre sentation, and establishing one that is infinitely better, and at the same time free from ail those latent tendencies and vices Which have been so gratuitously ascribed to it. The tidings of this vantage vote reached Edinburgh on Sunday evening, by means of the express despatched by The Suit, which arrived with unexampled rapidity. EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS.—By the unparalleled exertions of the Proprietors of The Sun, an express editioit of that paper was received by Messrs. Taylor Smith and Co., St. Andrew-square, by seven o'clock on the evening of Sunday last, bringing the full debate and grand division on the second reading of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords, being only thirtll-six hours after the division took place, and no less than nineteen hours in advance of the mail, a circumstance quite un precedented. The country is thus indebted to the extraordi nary efforts of the Proprietors of The Sun in being put in pos session in so short a period, of the result of a measure so very important ; and it would say little for the gratitude of the country if such a display of liberality and accommodation should be passed over without some peculiar mark of approba tion. The expense incurred in forwarding intelligence to all parts of the country by such a mode must be great indeed; but, regardless of expense, the Proprietors of this paper have shown themselves, on the present occasion, to be actuated by au anxiety for the public good, and which ought not to be met with indifference. „ (From the Lioerpool Albion, Monday, April.l6.) DIVISION ON THE REFORM BILL—So intense was the anxiety of the public to ascertain the result of the division on the motion for the second reading of the Bill, that all the newsrooms were, on Saturday night, crowded till the hours of closing, in expectation of the arrival of an express from London with the intelligence. Church.street, Parker-street, and their vicinities were blocked up by a dense multitude, who remained there from before eight o'clock till after ten, for the same pur pose. The first express which arrived was the one from the Courier office. The result of the division was immediately announeed, and was received by the multitude with visible tokens of satisfaction. The second express, which was from The Sun Office, arrived at eleven o'clock, at Mr. Arnold's Newspaper Office, Post-office.place. Yesterday (Sunday, as it was) the triumph of Ministers was the theme of general con versation. The prospect of the ultimate success of the Reform Bill has already dissipated the gloomy forebodings which Appre hension for its safety had thrown over the public mind. Still it is deserving of consideration whether public meetings ought to be held to petition the House of Lords to pass the Bill with the least possible delay. We are decidedly of opinion, that such meetings should he held in Liverpool and other places. . (From the Nottingham Review, Friday, April 30.) On Saturday last the utmost anxiety prevailed throughout the town for the result of the division in the House of Lords, on the second reading of the Reform Bill, and there was the more intense feeling as it was known that it had been agreed by both sides that the debate should not be prolonged beyond the sitting of Friday night. In the course of the day many manufacturers declined to give out any material to the frame work-knitters to work up, for fear of the consequences which might result from a second rejection. Through the afternoon expectation rose to the highest pitch, and the ardent wishes of the people were gratified by the arrival of a chaise and four, from which a purple flag was displayed, and which passed our office at three minutes past five; a Sun newspaper was received from the courier inside, announcing the joyful intelligence, and immediately the news was made known, one general smile of joy seemed to pervade every countenance. Throughout the evening nothing was to be seen but cheerful faces, and nothing heard but mutual congratulations. Those who had on Satur day declined giving out work, sent on Monday morning to de. sire their workmen to fetch out the material as usual. Is this no indication of the intense desire of the people for Reform ! The gentleman who rode down in an open carriage and four, express from London, with The Sun papers, on Saturday last, containing the welcome intelligence of a majority for the se cond reading of the Reform Bill in the House of Peers, was Mr. Lacy Townsend Gaskill, of The Sun Office, youngest son but one of Mr. John Gaskill, formerly an eminent auctioneer in this town. The express reached Nottingham from London, a distance of 125 miles in less than nine hours and a quarter! travelling at the extraordinary speed of a fraction less than four minutes and a half per mile, stoppages included. (From the Aberdeen Observer, Friday, April 9.0.) When the coaches which run through Fife betwixt Edin burgh and Dundee arrived here yesterday, bringing copies of The Sun, and the Caledonian Mercury, which contained the debate and division on the second reading of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords, the news flew through the town with the rapidity of lightning, and we need not say was generally ac ceptable; for although there are many who do not approve of the whole provisions of the Bill, all are anxious that the ques tion should no•w be finally determined, and none are insensible to the honour and benefit which this commercial town is likely to derive from having a representative in the House of Com mons. At three o'clock the bells in the different steeples struck up a merry peal, which was continued until five. In the evening some tar-barrels, an old boat, &c., were collected on the High-street, and served as the commencement of a bonfire, which was kept up until two o'clock in the morning. Similar fires on a smaller scale were lighted tip in the Hilltown and other places. No attempts were made to suppress this expres sion of feeling on the part of the mobility, and after wearing themselves out they dispersed in good humour, without mani. festing any disposition to riot. For several nights previous groups of people, chiefly of the labouring classes, had awaited the arrival of the mail, in order to learn the progress of the de. bate.—Dundee Courier, Tuesday. (From the Whilehaven Herald, Tuesday, April 17.) RAPID COMMUNICATION.—The news of the second reading of the Reform Bill arrived at our office on Sunday after noon, about twenty minutes Past three For the wonderful celerity with which it travelled a distance of more than three hundred and forty miles, we are indebted to the extraordinary exertions of the Proprietors of The Sun newspaper. The divi. sion was announced about seven o'clock on Saturday morning ; by eight, a gentleman from the The Suit office was on his road to the north, express with copies of the paper containing the news. By nine o'clock on Sunday morning, he had arrived at Carlisle, having travelled 301 miles in twenty-five hours: From Carlisle he proceeded without loss of time to Glasgow, and two gentlemen from Carlisle volunteered to take another ex press to Edinburgh. A third express was despatched about twenty minutes before ten to Whitehaven, by way of Wigton and Cockermouth, and reached this town with one copy of The Sun, at twenty minutes after three. We immediately put the glad tidings into print, and in a very short space of time the partictilamof the division were generally circulated in White haven. A special messenger was despatched in the evening to Egremont, and by the next morning the news would be spread over all the south of Cumberland. About ten o'clock in the evening, the Countess of Lonsdate arrived from Liverpool, having left about ten the same morning, and her passengers who had, many of them procured morning papers in Liverpool, were inexpressibly astonished to find the event already known in Whitehaven. We understand that the only express which is remembered ever to have arrived here before, was one during the war, which announced the landing of General Humbert at and diffiised as much consternation as the present auspicious event did joy. (From the Kendal Chronicle, Saturday, April 21.) THE REFORM QUESTION.—The second reading of the Reform Bill was carried in the House of Lords on Saturday morning last, by a majority of Nine : The glad tidings were first made known in this town on Sunday morning, by an ex press from The Sun office, which reached this town about half_ Pa st five o'clock. DESPATCH.—The Sun newspaper, containing the whole of Friday's debate and the division in the House of Lords on the Reform question, arrived here by express about half-past five o'clock on Sunday morning, and proceeded to the north. The division tlid not take place until nearly seven o'clock on Satur day morning, and allowing an hour for the preparation and printing of the newspaper, it will be perceived, that the express had travelled from London to this town at the extraordinary rate of 260 miles in twenty-one hours! which, when the delays of getting horses at the different stages during the night time i s taken into account, will be somewhat more than thirteen m il e s per hour! By nine o'clock on Sunday morning, it had arrived at Carlisle, having travelled 301 miles in twenty.five hours' From Carlisle it proceeded without loss of time to Glasg ow, and two gentlemen from Carlisle volunteered to take another express to Edinburgh. A third express was despatched about twenty minutes before ten to Whitehaven, by way of Wigton and Cockermouth. The public are much indebted to t h e , Proprietors of The Sun, for the spirited exertions which thap male en every occasion to afford . the earliest information on alLsubjects of importance. (From the Brighton Guardian, Wednesday, April 18.) The Proprietors of The Sun newspaper are entitled to our ho. nourable mention. By an express which they were at the ex pense of sending to this town on Saturday, they forwarded several numbers of their Saturday morning's edition, and by noon presented to all the public reading-rooms a report of the debate in the Lords, together with its important result. (From the Belfast Commercial Chrenide u Wednesday, April 18.) In a ?;e'coild edition of our paper on Monday we were enabled to announce the important fact that this Bill had been read a second time by a majority of nine. This we were enabled to do by an express from Messrs. Johnston and Co.'s with The San newspaper of Saturday, which contained a full report of the debate, though the division did not take place till seven o'clock that morning, an instance of exertion of which we never reedited a parhllel: . 'From the Constitution; or; Cork Advertiser, Saturday Morn, ing, Atiril 14.) On Thursday morning we were favoured with a third edition of the London Sun of Monday by express, throUgh the Clerks of the Roads, containing.the eiitiie.of Earl Grey's speech on the second reading of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords ; and lb the evening we received the London journals of Tues. day, per the Albion steamer, which arrived in our harbour after a quick and pleasant passage. (From the Chester Courant, Tuesday, April 17.) EARLY INTELLIGENCE.—Too much praise cannot be given to the Proprietors of The Sun newspaper for the great exertions used by them to convey the earliest intelligence of the result of the second reading of the Reform Bill : the in formation was brought to this city by express in fourteen hours after the decision of the House of Lords, which broke up at seven o'clock on Saturday morning, and the news arrived in Chester soon after nine the same evening. The same intelli- gence was sent to Dublin by the Proprietors of the same Paper. (From the Sussex Advertiser, Sunday, April 15.) THE SUN NEWSPAPER.—By the extraordinary and indefatigable exertions of the Proprietors of The Sun, we re ceived that Paper by express on Saturday afternoon, containing the debates on the second reading of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords, together with the division thereon. The ac count of the proceedings occupies upwards of nineteen columns, and yet we received this mass of information, at a distance of 50 miles, in about six hours and a half after the division took place. (From the Hampshire Chronicle (Winchester), April 23.) We were indebted to The Sun newspaper, last week, for the division in the House of Peers, which did not take place until seven o'clock on Saturday morning. By great exertions an ex press edition of this Paper was despatched at an early hour, and reached this office on Saturday evening, being the only London Journal which arrived here until Sunday morning. On other occasions the spirited Proprietors of this Paper have forwarded expresses to distant parts of the kingdom at the rate of more than 15 miles an hour. (From the Liverpool Journal, Saturday, April 21.) THE SUN NEWSPAPER.---It is with pleasure we have again to draw the attention of the public to the extraordinary and unprecedented exertions of The Sun newspaper, which gave the debates on the Second Reading of the Reform Bill up to the adjournment of the House of Lords at seven o'clock on Satur day morning last, and which was sent oft' by express to Mr. Arnold, Post-office-place, who will, en all matters of public interest, receive special expresses from the office of this spirited journal. (From the Cambrian, Friday, April 13.) Several of the Evening Papers on Monday published, in express editions," reports of the debate on the Reform Bill in the House of Lords that evening. These efforts of the London press to gratify their country readers deserve every praise. The Sun, printed at nine o'clock, containing the admirable speech of Earl Grey, at length, was forwarded to our office, and reached our hands within twenty-three hours after it was printed. It afibrded to an anxious throng of Reformers much gratification, and our thanks are due to the conductors of that paper for their considerate attention. (From the Dublin Warder, Saturday, April 21.) One would think that the expresses, which arrived from Lon don to those meritorious newspaper-agents, Messrs. Johnston and Co., Eden-quay, posted not in the ordinary way, but " on the wings of the wind." This conclusion will not be con. sidered strained when we inform our readers, that a copy of the "Express Edition" of The Sun newspaper, despatched from London on Saturday morning last, at seven o'clock, was re ceived by us, through the agency of Messrs. Johnston, at three o'clock on Sunday! . (From the Glasgow Trades' Advocate, Monday Morning Seven o'Clock.) THE GRAND DlVlSlON!—Scarcely had the great di spenser of "vulgar light" sunk beneath the horizon than the moral atmosphere of St.' Mungo's was illuminated with the beams of the artificial Sun of broad sheets, with its Editor, express, like another Phmton, bearing the intelligence of the division in the House of Lords on the Reform Bill. The express left The Sun Office on Saturday morning, and in thirty-six hours arrived in Glasgow —an event unparalleled in the history of newspaper despatch. (From Jackson's Orford Journal, Saturday, April el.) The intelligence of the second reading of the Reform Bill having been carried in the House of Lords arrived in this city about one o'clock on Saturday last. Two gentlemen, from the Courier and Sun Offices, with a number of copies of their re spective papers, came express, and reached Oxford in five hours after leaving London. The House did not break up till seven in the morning. That a newspaper containing the de bate to the close should be printed and conveyed such distance in so short a time is almost incredible. (From the Dublin Evening Mail, Monday, April 16.) By a most extraordinary and unprecedented exertion, The Sun newspaper, with an excellent Report of the debate, was despatched from London on Saturday morning by express, and reached this city at three o'clock. Copies were received by us, direct from The Sun Office, through the Clerks of the Roads, and from Messrs. Johnston, newspaper Agents, Eden-quay. This effort made by The Sun is one of the most surprising within our recollection ; and although opposed to that Journal in politics, we should be as ungenerous as unjust did we not make this acknowledgment of its merits and exertions. (From the Edinburgh Weekly Journal, Wednesday, April Is.) EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS.—By the unparalleled exertions of The Sun newspaper, an Extraordinary Express, bringing the grand division on the second reading of the Reform Bill, arrived at Messrs. James Taylor Smith and Co.'s General Newspaper and Advertising Office, St. Andrew-square, on the evening of the 15th inst., at seven o'clock, being only thirty-six hours after the division took place in the House of Lords. Thus by the judicious arrangement and unequalled efforts of the spi rited Proprietors of this paper, who were foremost in putting the country in possession of the result of this all-engrossing and important measure, the debates were read entire in Edinburgh in the above short space of time after they closed, a circum stance altogether unprecedented. (From the Brighton Herald, Saturday, April 21.) We feel much pleasure in noticing the great exertions of the Proprietors of The Sun newspaper, on the occasion of the division on the second reading of the Reform Bill. At a quarter past seven o'clock on Saturday morning the House ad journed ; and at ten minutes past twelve, a gentleman, in a post chaise, drove up to the door of our office, bringing copies of The Sun, containing no less than nineteen columns of the debate in closely printed matter, and giving the anxiously looked-for result The same gentleman immediately pro ceeded to convey the news to Lewes, and we immediately cir culated the cheering information both in Brighton and the sur rounding villages. ' (From the S'tantlerd Ne ws. ) LINCOLN, APRIL 19.—The news of the Reform Bill having passed the second reading in the Lords was known at Lincoln by half-past nine o'clock on Saturday evening, the proprietors of The Sun newspaper having sent off a second edi. tion by express as soon as the numbers were known. The re. suit has given the utmost satisfaction, and the intelligence was received with the heartiest welcome, we may say, by all,—yes, by all,---for be it known, that the Bishop of Lincoln, by a single speech which he made in the House of Lords last week, has converted the Dean, the Prebendaries, and the whole rookery of parsons in his diocese they all affect to be Re formers, all Bill-men now ! :From the Dublin Morning Register, Monday, April 16.) MAJORITY OF NINE FOR — THE REFORM BILL.— This important news was announced yesterday in Dublin, shortly after three o'clock, by an express which arrived at Messrs. Johnston's. We have only room to refer to the speeches, especially that of the Lord Chancellor. Many persons antici pated a majority of only five, when the house was about to divide, and some Tories, Who were considered most sharp. sighted, expected a triumph. Upon looking to the concluding observations of Earl Grey, it will be seen that the Premier has very unequivocally declared that he will avail himself, if neces sary, of the royal prerogative to fulfil the wishes of the people for Reform. The paper brought by the express was The Sun, which published the entire debate at seven o'clock on Saturday morning !: the Caledoaian Mercury, Monday, April IG.) REFORM BILL; SECOND READING CARRIED IN THE PEERS.—Thanks to "the immortal nine," the second reading of the Reform Bill has been carried in the House of Lords ! and the grand "conservative" measure is now secure, or at least may easily be made so. • EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS.— St. Andrew-square, last night, presented an unusual spectacle, hundreds of all classes being assembled around Messrs. Taylor Smith and Co.'s General Newspaper and Advertising Office, waiting in eager expectation the arrival of the Express, which was antici pated, bringing the grand division on the second reading of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords. About seven o'clock a general cry was heard to clear the way, when a chariot and - four drove up to the door with an extraordinary e x p r i„, from the Proprietors of The Sun, bringing the debates 0,, that all-engrossing question, which only terminated the prece. ding morning at seven o'clock. Thus, by the unparalleled ex ertions made on the present occasion, the debates were read length in Edinburgh in the short space ofthirty.six hours ate, the division took place, a circumstance altogether unpreceden. • ted. When the majority for the second reading of * the Bil. was announced, an unanimous shout of approbation was give!. by the multitude assembled, who afterwards dispersed in the greatest order. Shortly after the express arrived in Edinburgh , it proceeded with the same rapidity to the North, thus being Co:: foremost in putting the country in possession of the result of one of the most important questions that has ever come be. fore Parliament. (Frain the Preston Chronicle, Saturday, April 21.) EXPRESSES. —Numerous expresses left London on Satur day, with the news of the triumph of the Reform Bill. Th e Editor of The Sun passed through this town about twellC 0761.0 ck oki Sunday morning, on his way to Glasgow, serving copies of his paper at each of Gil! fargc foWhs. (From the same Paper.) THE REFORM BILL —The special expresses from The Sun Office, bringing the news of the Reform Bill having been read a second time in the House of Lords on Saturday morning kst, arrived at Lancaster at a very early hour. No sooner was the intelligence made known, than a visible change pervaded the eotintenance of every real friend to his country, and • g lodni_hess on the visages of the opponents to the measure was , equally as visible. (From the Stamford News, Friday, April 20.) RECEPTION OF THE NEWS OF THE SECOND READING OF THE REFORM BILL IN STAMFORD. —We owe our thanks, and the country owes its thanks, to the spirited Conductors of The Sun, for the atonishink weed with which the glad tidings of the second reading were cirCl.lSieff; Near seven on Saturday morning the division took place, and between three and four in the afternoon we had The Sun in Stamford, with the debate and the result. Within a very brief period the bells of the different churches rung an inspiring peal, and every face, save those of the " suspension"-loving corpora tion, was radidnt with joy. Many an ardent prayer ascended to the throne of Heaven that He in whose hands are the issues of life and death might save that King " Whose earthly power doth now show likest God's." (From the Devizes Gazette, Thursday, April 19.) In common with etery one between London and Bristol, who takes an interest in the Reform Bill (and who does not ?), we have to express our deep obligations to the Editors of the Courier and The Sun for the first intelligence of the di; vision in the House of Lords on the second reading of this important measure. The exertions used on this occasion are unprecedented, and appear almost incredible. The House did not adjourn until nearly seven o'clock on Saturday morn ing, yet within four hours afterwards, expresses, bringing some hundreds of the above Papers, and which contained a report of the debate to the extent of 16 columns, were fifty miles from London !!! (From the Worcester Herald, Friday, April 13.) The exertions made by the London Press, and more particU lerly theTvening Journals, to impart early intelligence to the country of the proceedings in Parliament during the progress of the Reform Bill, have been almost incredible, and form no insignificant feature of the enterprising spirit of the age. On Tuesday, Wednesday, and yesterday, copies of the Courier and The Sun, containing the debates in the House of Lords of the preceding evenings, up to the hour of rising, were sent by expresses to Birmingham, and by a despatch fi om thence were received at the public News Room, Sansome-walk, in this city, by three o'clock in the afternoon ; thus anticipating their arrival in the ordinary course upwards of eighteen hours ! Ex presses have also been received during the week at the Public News Room, at the Cross ; at which establishment, we under stand, arrangements have been made to obtain, by express, the expected division in the House of Lords to.night, at the ear liest possible hour to-morrow. (From the Caledonian Mercury, Thursday, April 19.) ACCELERATION OF THE MAlL.—Nothing can more completely confirm the practicability of accelerating the com munication between London and Edinburgh, according to Mr. Gallaway's plan, than the recent communication made of the division at seven o'clock on Saturday morning, on the second reading of the Reform Bill, which was carried in the House of Lords by the imnzortal Nine ! Mr. Young only left London with this glorious news at eight o'clock, and although he did not take the nearest route, but travelled in a zigzag direction, in order to embrace the principal towns, the carriage reached Edinburgh at seven o'clock on Sunday evening, in the asto nishingly short time of 35 hours, after having been detained on the road three hours by the difficulty in getting a change of horses; an inconvenience to which the mail-coach never can be exposed, because there is a relay of horses waiting at each stage. Besides, the mail enjoys another advantage, by haring all the stages divided into short distances, while Mr. Young could only change at the regular posting-houses, which made many of the stages extend to sixteen miles. After this proof of what can be done, were those with whom the arrangement rests willing to meet the anxious wish of the trading, manufac turing, and agricultural interests of the country, there can be no doubt that the London mail ought to arrive here by eight o'clock in the morning, instead of two o'clock in the afternoon. (From the Scots Times, Glasgow, Tuesday,•April 17.) REJOICINGS ON CLYDE Al' THE SUCCESS OF THE SECOND READING OF THE REFORM BILL— We have learnt that two copies of The Sun newspaper, con taining the division on Saturday morning, in the House of Lords, were despatched to Greenock on Sunday evening, and the consequence was, that during the whole of yesterday, there was great rejoicing in that town. All the vessels in the har bour were decorated with flags, and even the steeple of the church exhibited an ensign, waving triumphantly in the wind. The Castle of Newark at Port-Glasgow, the ship building-yards at Dumbarton, and every prominent place on our majestic Clyde displayed similar symptoms of popular satisfaction ; Glasgow and Paisley, as might be expected, also exhibited the lively interest which they have felt in the important political event which we have elsewhere recorded. From the Ballyshannon Herald aiul Donegal 4dvertiser, Friday, April 20.) By an extraordinary exertion of The Sun newspaper, we present our readers this day with the conclusion of the debate on the second reading of the Reform Bill, received through Messrs. Johnston, newspaper agents, Dublin. Talk of your race-horses, your steam-carriages, or your balloons—which of them all has wings equal to a newspaper ? The Sun—we mean that luminary which rises in the Strand, and shines every where—cloth glance like a beam of his glorious antitype, and rides on the posting winds with a rapidity of communication hardly to be surpassed by a line of telegraph. The division took place at seven o'clock on Saturday, morning, and at two o'clock in the afternoon of Monday, we held in our hand The Sun, containing twenty closely printed columns of the debate, to. gether with its lugubrious result. There was an annihilation of time and space enough to make our grandmothers start from their shrouds. (From the Glasgow Herald, Monday, April 16.) REFORM BILL READ A SECOND TIME IN THE HOUSE OF PEERS BY A MAJORITY OF NINE.- - Having announced this result, we must stop a little to explain how we have been able to procure this intelligence in such an unprecedentedly short time. At half-past seven o'clock last evening (Sunday), a post-chaise and four arrived in Glasgow with copies of The Sun newspaper, (the Old Sun) to Mr. At kinson, the newspaper-agent, dated on Saturday morning seven o'clock, containing no less than twenty-two and a half co lumns of the debate, commenced on Friday evening, and which must have concluded a few minutes before the date of the ex pr es s. By this extraordinary and most liberal exertion we had the news here in thirty-six hours, anticipating the news in the regular course by nearly twenty hours. We understand it was Mr. Young, the Editor of The Sun, wbo came down with such despatch from London to Glasgow. (From the Kent Herald, Thursday, April 9.) On Saturday morning about one o'clock an express brought the glad tidings of the success of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords. A hand-bill announcing the particulars being immediately issued, great satisfaction was perceptible throughout the city, and some of the parish bells struck up a merry peal. At half-past one an express from the Courier nitlee brought the latest edition of that journal, containing a copious abstract of the whole debate, and the numbers of the division—which were distributed at the newspaper.offices, and principal libraries in the city--an act of liberality highly credit able to the proprietors of the Courier, and an almost incredible instance of the activity of the London Press. SnortlY wards, we received a similar pa c k e t f rom Th e S un o ffice with , a still more ample report of the p ro c ee di ngs o f t h e tno rning. , public must appreciate such exertions to gratify its anxious curiosity on such occasions. We did no t o b serve " the par sons" congratulating eac h o th er, an d s h a ki ng han d s t oge th er as on a former most m emora 6l e S atur d ay i n Octo b er l as t , w hen news of an opposite characte r was i n c i rcu l at i on. niter- V (From the Edinburgh Evening Courant, Monday, April 16.) The great question of Reform, which has so long agitated the country, has been at length so far brought to a settlement, by the decision of the House of Lords in favour of the second reading of the Bill now under their consideration. This ac count was brought by an express from The Sun Office, which arrived here last night about seven o'clock. • EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS. St. Andrew-square, last night, presented 'an unusual spectacle, hundreds of all classes being assembled around Messrs. Taylor Smith and Co.'s General Newspaper and Advertising Office, waiting in eager expectation the arrival of the express, which was anticipated. bringing the division on the second reading of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords ! About seven o'clock a general crf was heard to clear the way, when a chariot and four drove up to the door with an Extraordinary Express from the Proprie tors of The Sten, bringing the debate on that all-engrossing question, which only terminated the preceding morning at se ven o'clock. When the majority for the second reading of the Bill was announced an unanimous shout of approbation was given by the vast multitude assembled. Thus, by the unpa ralleled exertions made on the present occasion, the debates were read at length in Edinburgh in the short space of thirtJ s<•'a• hours after the division took place—a circumstance altoge ther unprecedented. Shortly after the express arrived in Edinburgh it proceeded, with the same rapidity, to the va rious towns- in the north of Scotland—thus being foremost in putting the country in possession of the result of one of , the most important questions that has ever come before Parliament. (From the Carlisle Journal, Saturday, April 21.) THE REFORM BILL.—WONDERFUL EXERTION. —On Sunday morning last, about half-past ni ne o ' c l oc k , gre at excitement was created in this city by th e arr i val of an express in a chaise and four, which drove to the Coffee-house Hotel, at full gallop,bringing the intelligence of the second reading of the Reform Bill by a majority of nine. The express was brought by Mr. Young, the Proprietor of 'The Sun newspaper, who.had left London on the preceding morn i ng at twenty minutes before eight o'clock—thus accomplishing a journey of 301 miles in