The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-21 00:00:00

CHANGES LN THE POST-OFFICE.

Yesterday a meeting of the proprietors and reprc-
•entattres of rations Lladon newspapers took plies st
Pccles C ,ffet-house, Fl.et•street, for the purpose of taki-g
.oto maideratton the twit means of inducing parliament to
retrace their steps as regards the alterations which bars
just beta made in the transmission of letters and newspopas
through the pan-office on Sunday. Mr. Ingram, of the
Illustrated London News, took the chair.

Mr. StRLE, of the Weekly Dispatch, moved the first
asafetida, and in doing so observed that this shirr
ti,n would have met with a more strenuous cpposi-
tion if those who were connected with the press
looked more closely to the matter, and came to un-
derstand how closely it affected them. In no other einntry
under the sun in which the people enjoyed anything like
• conritutional form of government, and in which the
press exercised something like its natural influence, could
any such insult be offered by a government as so suddenly
to stop the transmission of a very large mejoity of the
newspapers ttir,ugh the Post-office on one day is the week.
The tact of the government hiving the power to insult them
in such a manner arose from their not acting in a body.
In conclusion, Mr. Sale proposed a resolution to the effect
"that the meeting conceived that the ministry, in stopping
the use of the pAI by the weekly newspapers, is an address
moved by °sly 96 members of the House of Commons, had
shrunk from its duty as a government "
. .

Mr. COX. of the Lnw Tinter, ascended the resolution,
and stated that he could not but share the gener.l feeling
that a macron, injustice had been attempted to be prac.
tiud on them on this occasion. The regulation which had
been sanctionsd by the governmeet would compel the pub•
lishm of weekly newspapers to have them posted on Friday
to enable their readers in the country to receive them by
Sunday. It would, therefore, produce an immense decline
is the circulation of the weekly newspapers which
came out on Saturday, as they could not be received
by their subscribers until Monday. Their subscribers
tinding that they had to wait twenty-four hours for
theirnewspaper would very soon begin to drop their sulrtcrip-
tions. It was a matter therefore of great pecuniary interest
in the proprietors of weekly newspapers that such a system
should immediately be put a stop to. No man had &newt*
my that the employment on Sundays of three or four per-
sons is the volt office for the convenience of a large com-
munity should male, while he himself employed an equal
number of persona at his own house on that day for hit own
etweesience. (Hear, hear.) Me concluded by seconding
the resolution. _

Mr. LEE, of Belts Weekly Messenger, in opposing the
adoption of the res3lutioo, said that ea far at the measure
itself was concerned he thought that it would be productive
of immer.te go( dto the public at large. The proprietors of
the paper whichhe represented bad many years given up
the practice of printing on Sunday. It was evident front
what bad been stated that those who objected to the altera-
tion were actuated by nothing more than pecuniary motives,
withost any consideration of the moral bearing of the qu• a-
tion. He thought that no measure ever passed wltich 14111
so fully the aoocarrentm of the people of this country,
and even these who had the greatest advantage of
the transmission of letter, such as merchants, bankers, end
solicitor, came forward in its support in hundreds and thou-
sands. (" Oh, ob.") He then moved the previous question.
Mr. OAKEY of the Christian Times seconded the
amendment.
After a few words from Mr. Buchanen and Mr. Salo, in
refutation of the statement made by Mr. Lee and Mr °Mop,
the original revolution wee carried almost unacimoualy.
Mr. THOMAS, of the Courier cis L'Europe, moved" that
a committee be formed to take into consideratioa the general
intern:a of the press, especially as regarded the efforts to
interfere with the circulation of papers by Sunday bills."
It was seconded by Mr. it. J. Wools, of the Dispatch,and
carried.
The following gentlemen were then agreed to, to form the
committee, with power to add to their number:—Messrs.
Ingram, Mortimer, Bonney, Serie, Weed, Wrigntsue,
Ledger, Scott, Thomas Palmer, and Stiff. Mr. J. J. Scott
was appointed honorary secretary.
The meeting then separated, the usual vote of thanks to
the chairman having been agreed to.

Her ltlysl Highness the Duchess of Kent, at-
tended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson' left town yesterday
morning for Frogman. Her Royal Highness returned to
Clarennhouse, St. Jamb, in the afternoon.
BOCIF.TY FOR PROMOTING TILE BUILDING, EN-
LANOSNIinT, AND RIPAIRINOOYCHIJACRES AND CULPIIIII.
—This indefatigable moiety hold its usual monthly meeting
on Monday last, his Waco the Archbishop of Canterbury in
the chair. The applications laid before the board on this
OWII,IIOII were rather numerous, being 33 in number. Of the
districts for which the new churches are intended, there is
no, much to report; their population varies from 300 to
2,000, and some are three miles distant from their parish
churches; they are Ugthorp, in the parish of Bribe near
Whitby; Trocestn, in Gloucestershire; Sandford, In the
wish of St. Helen, Abingdon ; Penponds, in the parish of
Cusherne, Cornwall; Wedanfield heath, in Staffordshire;
Hockerill, to the parish of Bishops Stontord ; Maprerlf, in
the parish of Kirk Hallam, near Derby. The church to be
rebuilt is that at Bingley, in the pariah of Prestwich, Lan-
cashire. The churches to be enl:.roted are those of Cited-
gran, near Lldon, Norfolk ; Satbleten' Northumberland ;
Billington, neer Leighton Buzzard ; St. Michael's, Chester;
Lien decry, Caermarthsushire ; Thurleston, near Hinckley,
Lela estereldr• ; Roach, near Northampton ; Troedgrawr,
near Newcastle-in-Renlyn, Cardiganshire ; and ChurchetOwi
seer Kingsbridge, Devoe.