The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-27 00:00:00

EXTRACT OF A LETTER.

English Newspaper Office, Paris, Jan. 17.
DEAR SIR,—It was not until after the arrival of your
extraordinary express at half-past two o'clock yesterday
afternoon, with copies of your Sunday edition of The Sun,
containing the proceedings at the Glasgow banquet in
honour of Sir Robert Peel's installation, that I received
by the ordinary Post-office estafette, your letter of the 13th
of January, written in London, at the very moment when
the Lord Rector elect was in the act of delivering his after-
dinner speech to the Conservatives of the North ; so that
the continental branch of your seriis of expresses made
such good speed compared with the English mail, the Go-
vernment steamer, and the French malle estafette, as to
save all the time that had been consumed in writing the
report, in bringing up the manuscript to town, in preparing
it for press, and in printing and dispatching it. It is true
that the storm in the Channel had caused the mail due in
Paris on Sunday to fail altogether, and had retarded that
of Monday by two or three hours ; but after making the
most liberal deduction for this accident in your favour, the
feat you have achieved is justly considered, by those who
are best versed in such matters, to be far beyond all prece-
dent. I need not assure you that the papers were not many
minutes in my possession until they found their way to
most of the regular readers of The Sun in this capital. I
enclose the extracts from Galignani's Messenger, the Paris
Sun, the Courrier Francais, the Journal du Commerce,
and the Quotidienne. To-morrow I shall do the like by
any other papers that may have availed themselves of your
express. The Suns, with special addresses to the King of
the French, the British Ambassador, the Minister of the
Interior, and Lord Lyndhurst, were delivered instantly on
the arrival of the express, as were also copies for the Pre-
sidents of the two Chambers, the Minister for Foreign
Affairs, the Duke of Sutherland, and a number of other
distinguished individuals.—Yours, faithfully,

---, Agent.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER.
BOULOGNE, JAN.
16.—DEAa Sta,—Your express ar-
rived here on Sunday. As no one was at our Office at
the time, half an hour was lost before it could be for-
warded. Measures were, however, immediately adopted
for its dispatch, and the courier enjoined to travel quickly.
It was not until after the express had been dispatched that
your letter of the 13th, advising us of its intended arrival,
came to hand. If this letter had reached.tjs as it ought to
have done, the evening before, we should have had time to
have made the necessary preparation, and thus have pre-
vented the delay taking. place.
~ -.Blame ought to be attached
to the English Captain, who, on other occasions, has been
the cause of similar delay, by persisting in going to Calais
instead of coming to- Boulogne. The mail of the 14th
arrived here yesterday (the 15th), and entered our port
Without any difficulty.; and the Captain who had your let-
ter m'ght, of cinfi;e, have done the same, if he had not
thougl.t propertkpiefey going to Calais.—your': faithfully,
* * *
By the kindness of the conductors of the London jour-
nal, The Sun, we have-been favoured with an express copy
of that- journal published on Sunday morning, with an
account the dinner at Glasgow, and the speech of
'Phis is %WO was dispatched to Paris by express.
tise' rst ti me the spirit and enterprise of
the proprietor of our London Contemporary has called
forth our acknowledgments ; but the rapidity with which
this account was transmitted from Glasgow, and pub-
lished ii The Sun, appears unexampled ; the distance of
that City' from the British Metropolis amounting to 404
miles, and the speeches reported having been delivered,
many of them, at a late hour on Friday night. We regret
that the large portion of our columns already this morning
devoted to Sir R. Peel, being the report of his admirable
inauguration address as Lord Rector of the University,
compels us, in justice to the important intelligence which
at this moment presses upon us from many points, to
defer inserting the account of this Conservative ban-
quet until our next publication. The banquet hall erected
for the occasion appears from the description to be one
of the most magnificent temporary edifices ever raised in
so short a time. The company amounted to about 3,500
persons, Henry Monteith, Esq., in the Chair, supported by
nearly all the .distinguished Conservative Noblemen and
Gentlemen in North Britain. The speech of the Right
Hon. Baronet was received with the utmost enthusiasm.
After a well-timed and graceful appeal to the national
feelings of the company, he introduced the subject of Re-
form, the Ministry, and their supporters, against whom he
called upon the loyalty of those around him to defend their
ancient institutions. The Right Hon. Baronet, in con-
demning revolutions, quoted the noble passage in M.
Guizoes late address to the Institute, in which that States-
man described the morals of society in revolutionised France ;
and also quoted M. Tocquevillc and other authorities, upon
the United States; and, contrasting the proud pre-eminence
of England with her ancient Constitution of King, Lords,
a" Commons, with the position of other countries, he con-
jured them to stand by their native land, their old establish•
meats,hY , their ancient faith. This address was responded to
Jong demonstrations of adhesion, which continued for
sfte time after the Right Hon. Baronet had resumed his
l'eat• Several other gentlemen afterwards addressed the
afnpanY• and a number of Conservative toasts were given,
after which the company separated.—Galignanes Illessen-
gcraf Jan. 17.
a We Yesterday received from the office of the London Sun,
to,,,ltdaY edition, published by the spirited pr2prie-
'a ha our liberal namesake—containing eight columns and
.the proceedings at Glasgow on Friday last, at the
electe'"entary dinner to Sir Robert Peel, as the newly-
coni,„g Lord Rector of Glasgow University. The dinner
'"eneed at about half-past five, and if we consider the
mastication t_a_stication to have occupied an hour, and the speechifica-
un five hours and a half, we shall bring our time account
to midnight of the 13th. Suppose the copy of the reporters
prepared in six hours, and that this copy left Glasgow at
ti.saan. on the 14th, on its journey of 404 miles to the Bri-
tt Itemetropolis—wben the intelligence reached The Sun
e in London, it had to be composed, read, corrected,
and printed.
hours
must have occupied at the lowest cal-
culation eight
4rs and as we received our copy of The
London Sun at o'clocksoi yesterday afternoon, the express
can only have had Hours for its transmission of the re-
port 650 Miles—frot
Boulogne, to Paris—Glasgow, by London, Dover, and
whichis at the rate of 13 miles per
hour for the entire disa
slescription, inclusive. Tchei—delays, and accidents of every
& needs no comment ; and, least
of all, in a country where
en
made for the roads, instead of ' horses, and vehicles are
them. We subjoin the speech oft
hteh roads being made for
hope we shall be considered fairl te honoured guest ; and
thlshave discharged ouru
duty as caterers for all tastes, inyintenTrrangement of
the
supply of interesting
ere. After t
routine toasts had been disposed of withg ue Igennoursiivoenr-
bat, musical, and vociferous, the Chairman
t_eith, Esq., of Carstairs, proposed the healtii of Sirryßober;
Peel, which announcement was received with loud cheers
,
which continued for several minutes.—Paris Sun of Jan. 17.
• The lack of local intelligence in our columns of this week,
will be amply compensated by the interesting and stirringspirit-
speech of Sir Robert Peel at Glasgow. It is un-
nweicieessary for us to make an apology for withholding notices,
C.l. h whatever their interest 0:11St necessarily fait of ex-
iting such interest as the '0 l•ave reported nearly
at length. The metropolitansc 4
newspaper.. we
stole of the, re fully sen-
excitement this speech would proms, from,

the pains they took to have express reports at io early an
hour. The Sun received its report at half-past one on
Sunday morning—thus performing a distance, presuming
the reporter to have left the meeting at eleven o'clock, of
nearly 400 miles, in the incredibly short space of twenty-
six hours and a half. The report was re-expressed through-
out the kingdom on Sunday, and we have to acknowledge
the courtesy of the spirited proprietor, in favouring us with
so early a copy of his Journal, containing nearly the whole
proceedings of this memorable meeting.—Luny and Supllt.
herald.

PARIS, JAN. 17.—We received an extraordinary num-
ber of The Sun published on Sunday morning, and seat
hither by express. It contains a ltdl report of the pro-
ceedings, not only at the installation of Sir Robert Peel as
Lord Rector, but also at the banquet at which that States-
man was entertained at Glasgow on Friday evening.—
Journal du Commerce.

The promised express of The Sun newspaper, with the
speech of Sir Robert Peel at the Glasgow dinner, which
was expected in this city last night, did not arrive until this
day at 2 o'clock. The bad state of the road over a dis-
tance of nearly COO miles, has no doubt impeded our Con-
temporary's arrangements. As it is, however, we may
consider it the most unprecedented despatch that has ever
occurred, and the proprietor of The Sun has in this in-
stance eclipsed himself by his extraordinary exertions.
Owing to the arrival occurring as we were going to press,
it is impossible to give more than the following brief ac-
count of this glorious meeting.—Western Luminary.
The Sun Paper, by most extraordinary speed, obtained
and published the report of the proceedings at Glasgow up
to their close, on Friday night, so early as Sunday morn-
ing, half-past one o'clock. The distance is four hundred
miles.—Taunton Courier.
By " a most extraordinary express,"received at The Sun
Newspaper Office on Sunday morning at half-past one
o'clock, the spirited proprietor of that Journal was enabled
to give a full report of the speeches at the Glasgow Ban-
quet to Sir Robert Peel on Friday evening, and copies of
The Sun were circulated in these towns by nine o'clock on
Sunday morning, thereby anticipating the rest of the me-
tropolitan press by twenty-seven hours.—Rochester, Chat-
ham, and Stroud Gazette, and Weekly Advertiser.
DINNER TO SIR R. PEML.—The expresses of The Sun
London newspaper have been employed on this occasion
with extraordinary effect. The account of the dinner at
Glasgow, about four hundred miles from London, reached
Birmingham in about forty-eight hours after the feast com-
menced ; and we ourselves received a copy from Messrs.
Mansell and Co., news agents in Birmingham, on Sunday
evening—an instance of expedition which, we believe, is
unexampled in the annals of newspapers.—lVolverhanipton
Chronicle.
We believe that The Sun was the only London paper of
Tuesday evening last that reached Jersey, with the " Brevet
Promotions " by Thursday's packet ; in consequence of
which,- the members of one of our reading rooms requested
the proprietor to accommodate them with that Journal in
fut Tire, instead of the Globe, or the Courier. For our own
parts, from an experience of several years, we are satisfied
that The Sun is decidedly the•best of the Metropolitan EVe-
ning Papers, and it would appear, by the following-an
nouncement, that its spirited proprietor is determined to
maintain its high character for energetic despatch and
priority of intelligence :—" During the Eventful Session now
at hand, The Sun wilt endeavour to outdo its former ex-
ertions, in giving the very latest and fullest Reports of Par-
liamentary Debates, up to the hour of post, and, when ne-
cessary, by express on all the great Lines of Road."—
Jersey Argus.
For an early copy of Sir R. Peel's Speech, se are in-
debted to the spirited exertions of the proprietor of The
Sun. The speech was delivered in Glasgow on Friday
evening, and was published in London—a distance of 400
miles--in an extraordinary edition of The Sun,. soon after
midnight on Saturday ! We are sure that exertions like
these cannot fail to be duly rewarded by the public—Ha-
lifax Express.
It is a proud thing to witness the involuntary homage
paid to the superiority of the Conservative leaders. When
was half the anxiety felt to read a speech of Lord' John
Russell ?—risu;n teneatis 7—or even of Lord Brougham, or
Lord Grey, that has been displayed, by Whigs and Radi-
cals, as well as 'Tories, to read the speech of Sir Robert
Peel at Glasgow ? Even a " Liberal" paper, The Sun—
and it would be unjust on such an occasion not to notice
its .wonderful exertions—published in London, early on
Sunday, a long report of the dinner, which had thus been
brought, irr an almost incredibly short space of time, a dis-
tance of four hundred miles.—Brighton Gazette.
SIR R. PEEL'S SPEECH.—It is but due to our enterpris-
ing London Contemporary, The Sun, to notice the extra-
ordinary exertions it made in procuring a report of the
Glasgow meeting. The account was expressed to London
in little more than twenty-four hours, was printed to the
extent of. nearly nine columns, and reached this city by-the
Emerald coach on Sunday evening about half-past nine.
It is also due to our aforesaid Contemporary to state, that
though similar surprising efforts are now made by other
London papers, The Sun was the first, some years ago, to
set the example, and that it is particularly and almost
exclusively distinguished among the evening Press, for the
fullness and lateness of its intelligence. In the eventful
Session about to commence, as we are quite sure a similar
display of energy will not be wanting, so we trust it will
meet with a corresponding return on the part of the pub-
lic.—Bristel Gazette.
DINNER TO SIR ROBERT PEEL.—We copy the following
from an "Expressed Edition" of The Sun newspaper. The
dinner took place on Friday evening, at Glasgow, after
which this and other speeches were delivered. The report,
being eight and a half columns in length, small type, was,
expressed to London, a distance of 400 miles, in about 24
hours after the meeting, immediately printed, and forwarded
to all parts of the kingdom within 200 miles of the metro-
polis by Sunday evening. The extraordinary rapidity with
which important events have heretofore been circulated
through the country by The Sun, has been matter of sur-
prise and astonishment to the whole kingdom ; but the dis-
patch used in this instance exceeds that of any former oc-
casion. Yet the spirited proprietor promises to endeavour
to outdo his former exertions, during the eventful Session of
Parliament now at hand. To doubt for a moment that such
herculean efforts and tremendous sacrifices as must then be
called into requisition, will go unrewarded, would be a libel
upon the common-sense of the British public.—Leaming-
tun Chronicle.

DINNER TO SIR ROBERT PEEL.—We are indebted to
the spirited proprietor of The Sun for a copy of that paper,
which reached us early on Monday morning, containing
a report, extending to eight columns, of the proceedings
at the dinner given on Friday last, at Glasgow, to Sir Ro-
bert Peel.—Barrow's Worcester Journal.

Through the astonishing exertions made by the con-
ductors of The Sun newspaper, that publication on Sunday
morning contained a lengthened report of Sir Robert Peel's
speech, delivered at the dinner at Glasgow, on Friday even-
ing. The company did not sit down to table till five
o'clock ; and allowing for the time occupied in discussing
the feast, in the toasts which preceded that of their dis-
tinguished guest, the Right Hon. Baronet's address, and
the subsequent speeches—then the copying the short hand
notes—the distance accomplished (400 miles in about
twenty-four bours,and full half the time in darkness)—and,
lastly, the publication at seven o'clock Sunday morning—
when, we say, all these are taken into consideration, grati-
fication gives place to' wonder at the excellence of their ar-
rangements; and the astonishing celerity with which the
task was accomplished.—Sherborne Journal.
The proprietor of The Sun Evening Newspaper, to whose
public-spirited exertions we alluded last week, fulfilled his
engagement with the public almost to the letter ! The
dinner took place at Glasgow at half-past five in the even-
; and by the time that the immense report, occupying
eight and a half columns of small type (with abundant ma-
terials for more in the reporters' copy) was taken, the hour
of midnight must have been exceeded before the despatch
started for London. And yet, incredible as it may ap-
pear, within one hour after midnight on Sunday, the copy
was in the printers' hands, and, in a few hours afterwards,
the paper was again expressed to all parts of England,
reaching Bath by half•past six on Sunday evening—a dis-
tance of more than 500 miles from the spot where the re-
port was taken.—Bath Herald.
The subjoined report of Sir Robert Peel's speech at this
dinner, is copied at full length from The Sun London
Paper, the proprietor of which Journal, by extraordinary
and we believe unparalleled exertions, received in London
at half-past one o'clock on Sunday morning, an account of
the proceedings at the Glasgow dinner on Friday evening,
the distance between the two places being about 400 miles!
In the course of the morning an edition of The Sun was
published (containing a report of more than eight columns
in extent), and immediately transmitted by express to all
parts of the kingdom.—Coventry Herald.
The speech of Sir Robert Peel at Glasgow, on Friday
night, was transmitted to us by express, on Sunday, by.the
Proprietor of The Sun Paper. The accuracy with which
the oration is reported, in the midst of such incredible speed,
is wonderful. Our copy of the paper was mischievously
Intercepted by parties in Shrewsbury.—Shretvabury Chron.
W9NDERFUL DISPATCH.—The enterprising proprietor
of The Sun newspaper in his efforts to put the public as
early as possible in possession of the speech of Sir Robert
Peel, at the Glasgow banquet, has outdone all his former
exertions, great and extraordinary as these exertions are ac-
knowledged to be. The distance from Glasgow to London
is about four hundred miles. The Sun Express react have
left t sonugibPre about ten o'clock on Friday night ; and in
eight and twenty hours miter, it arrived in town, travelling
this immense distance at the ineredilde $1)00 9f64Peu miles