The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-04 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

PREPARATIONS FOR TIIE
TION OF THE QUEEN AT BRIGHTON.

(From the Brighton Guardian.)
As the Queen will arrive in Brighton after the publica-
tion of our Paper of this day, we shall not have the plea-
sure, for a week to come, of announcing her Alsjcsty's po-
sitive arrival here and safe installation in the Pavilion ;
nevertheless, as great preparations have been made for the
occasion, we shall, for the information of such of our read-
ers as from residing at a distance, or some other unfortu•
nate accident, will not be able to be present in person, give
some account of what has been already prepared, and what
further proceedings it is arranged shall also take place on
this eventful afternoon. This information will likewise be
acceptable, no doubt, to many of those who will be wit-
nesses of the whole ceremonial.

The great feature is the amphitheatre at the bottom of
Church-street. This erection, the idea mad plan of which
were originated by Mr. John Fabian, is upwards of 240
feet in circumference. The arena is open to the sky, but
the galleries which run round it are roofed with boards.
The lower gallery is about three feet from the ground ; and
upon this stage persons will be allowed to take their
stand on payment. of a moderate sum, the admission being
by tickets only. The number of persons capable of being
thus accommodated is reckoned at 1,400. Overhead is
a gallery containing three rows of seats with places for
about 1,000 persons, the whole of which were taken
last night. This gallery also runs the whole length of tla.:
avenue which forms the entrance into the amphitheatre and
also flanks it on each side. The galleries arc divided by
pillars into twelve compartments, and are handsomely
finished off with evergreens formed into minarets to corre-
spond with the peculiar architecture of the Palace itself,
against which the south end of the amphitheatre abuts.
Each compartment forms a broad arch hung with green
balsa and tastefully decorated with foliage, while the panels
of what may be called the front of these boxes are covered
with crimson, bearing the initials V. R., and other devices,
and edged with green boughs. This, it is imagined, will
be the best place for seeing the Queen.
At the entrance of the town, just south of the Hare
and Hounds Inn, on the London road, a very handsome
rural arch, decorated entirely with foliage and flowers, has
been erected after a plan given in to the Committee by Mr.
G. Cheesman. It consists of a large arch over the car-
riage-way, and a smaller arch over the payment on each
side. At this spot the high constable and his officers will
be stationed to receive and welcome her Majesty. The
whole length of the road from this rural arch to the amphi-
theatre is protected by barricades at every opening, and the
vacant places have been all let for carriages to stand
in ; on every vacant piece of ground in this line indi-
viduals have erected temporary platforms and advertised
" seats to let," while we have heard of numerous instances
where a drawing-room window or a balcony has been
let for five guineas. The avenue into the amphitheatre
curves considerably to the east; so that persons
outside cannot look in, neither can those within see any-
thjild beyond it. The Royal carriages, owing to this cir-
cumstance, must be drawn into the very centre of the
arena before they can reach the Palace gate ; the effect of
this, therefore, will be to give every one present an excel-
lent view of the Royal cortege. The height of the amphi-
theatre is about 46 feet, but the avenue is upwards of 60.
The whole interior of the amphitheatre, instead of being
hung with tapestry, is wainscotted, as it were, with ever-
greens supplied by different noblemen and gentlemen for
forty miles round. The Duke of Norfolk alone sent in ten
e aggon loads from Arundel Castle. Contributions of
flowers and evergreens have also been liberally made by
the following noblemen and ;gentlemen :—The Earl of Chi-
chester, Lord Gage, Sir George Shiffner, Mr. Tillstone,
Mr. W. Campion, Mr. T. Attree, Mrs. Wood, of Chest-
ham, Mr. Briggs, Mr. Cameron, Mr. Hall, of Henfield,
Mr. Borrer, of Hurst, Mr. Borrer, of Ilenfield, Mr. T.
Broadwood, of the Holmbush, and Mr. J. Colbatch.

CHANGES.
The Marquis of Ormond and the Earl of Ossory for Kil-
LeneY Castle; the Earl of Hopetoun, from the Raehils, for
Ropetoun House, Linlithgowshire ; the Countess of Por:more
tior Brighton; Lady and Miss Mildmay, from Dqr,mersfield Park,
for The Grange, Hants ; the Hon. William Henry Irby, from
the
seat of Lord Boston, for Hedsor Lodge, in Buelting,ham-
t."; the Hon. Nlis Rigby for Mistle Hall, in Essex
e.ut...General Sir James Kemp, for Sussex; Major-General
`yells,
on a tour • Lady and Capt. Fraser, from Tunbridge
N for Brighion ; Mr. John Hope, from South End, for
betleY Hall, Shrewsbury ; Mr. Thomas Henry Hope for
eepdene ; Colionel and Mrs. Grant, from East Cowes, Isle
. Na\\Tight, for the Steyne, Brighton ; Colonel Powell for
leos Hall, Aberystwith, from Cheltenham ; Mrs. and Lady
eisa Pole, and Cap, Pole, from The Grange, Bucks, to the
°Earli of Winterton's, Shillinglee Park, Sussex ; B. B. Wil-
tiaTh,s V.
Esq., from the Hon. Capt. Hotham's Woolmers, Herts,
. Gambier, Esqr's, Sacombe Park; Henry Maaders,
Esq., from the St. James's Royal Hotel, for Cumberland ;
Geo. Kelly, Esq., from ditto, for Cheltenham ; William R.
Collett, Esq., from Ditto, on a tour • James M. Melville, Esq.,
and Miss Melville, from ditto, for Edinburgh.
ARRIVALS.
Lady John Douglas, in Park-place, St. James's-street, from
Baden-Baden ; Sir Actley and Lady Cooper, in Conduit-
abtreet, from a tour; Mr. Richard Jones, in Chapel-street,
:?elgrave_square, from St. Leonard's ; Mr. Sergeant Spankie
root Brighton • ' Lord James Stuart in Whitehall-place ; R.
S Guinness, Esq., and family, at the St. James's Royal
Rota], from Paris; T. Nugent, Esq., and family, from ditto;
Colonel Vernon Graham, CB., at ditto, from Gibraltar; Al-
fred Harris, Esq., at ditto, from Italy ; Mons. Alix. Tiron, at
ditto, from Dieppe.

We mentioned last week that a decorative Committee
had been formed, consisting of the florists of the town, but
we are sorry to say that these gentlemen, who have always
been allowed the free use of the Town-hall for their exhi-
bitions of flowers, have shown their gratitude by suddenly
refusing to do anything unless paid for it at the rate of
10s. a day. The Committee very wisely and very properly
rejected the proposition. The florists, howe‘er, residing
out of the town were not guilty of this meanness, and Mr.
Mitchell, of Piltdown, not only supplied 7,000 dahlias, but
gave up his time to assist in the general decorations.
As her Majesty reaches the rural arch the words " Hail
England's Queen" will meet her eye, and on approaching
the avenue she will read the feelings of the people ex-
pressed in the simple greeting, on its northern front, of
" Welcome, Victoria."

We must give the designer of the amphitheatre (Mr.
Fabian) great credit for the skill with which he has ar-
ranged the staircases, which are four in number, are apart
from one another, and have all good approaches. Mr.
Fabian has been incessant i❑ his attendance in forwarding
the works, the decorative department of which has been
confided to Mr. Wood, by whom they have been executed
with that taste and decision for which he has justly ac-
quired a reputation.
Yesterday morning the Committee put out the pro-
gramme, which we subjoin, and we heartily concur in the
recommendation it contains, that the population should
refrain from closing in upon her Majesty's carriage after it
has passed them. The neglect of this suggestion cannot
afford the slightest additional gratification to the spectator,
but it may be attended with danger to thousands. The
equestrian escort will, it is expected, be most numerous and
respectable, and its ranks will be filled up by gentlemen
from all parts of the country. Enthusiasm is at its height,
and we risk nothing, when we add in conclusion, that a
hearty and sincere welcome awaits our youthful ruler on
her first entrance into this highly-favoured and loyal town.
It is understood that the arrival of her Majesty will take
place between the hours of four and five. Great prepara-
tions are nicking for a general illumination in the evening,
which promises to be a very brilliant affair.

Mr. C. W. Codrington leaves town in a few days on
a tour.

Lord de Roes has abandoned his intended tour on
tl e Continent.
Lah Fitzalan, M.P., has arrived in town from a
or ...4; excursion in Scotland.
Alvanley has left town for Dover, where his
L°rdship will sojourn for a few weeks.
It iThe Ear; of Yarmouth's town coach is nearly finished.
8 Very eleglo t, and quite new in device.
RoThe Marquis Conyngham has left Windsor for the
Yal Pavilion, Brighton. •
The Duchess f Ml;rlborough has gone to Hampton
Court palace.
Baron likely
t 0 Muffling isspoken of at Berlin as
Presidency
the late Duke Charles of Mecklenburg in the
of the Council of State.
The Earl and Countess of Radnor are entertaining
select party at Longford Castle, near Salisbury.
S Royal Highness the Princess Augusta of
a
tr,I.PY, on leaving Windsor Castle on Monday, proceeded
uusby on a short visit to the Queen Dowager, and ar-
tted at Mivart's Hotel in the evening. Her Royal High-
villa's suite preceded her.
andsYeterday afternoon her Royal
`ughness took an airing paid several visits. In the
course of the day the Earl and Countess Delawarr, Count
Bilk Countess Sebastiani, Count and Countess Ludolf, Count
Le'rdeßßrahe, M. de Kisseliff, and General Uminski, visited
oYal Highness at the above hotel.
tb The Bishop of Chichester's second public dinner at
Sire alace, was attended by Lord George Lennox, ,General
t John Crosbie, Captain Rornilly, Mr. Romilly, J. Smith,
1., Mr. Dickens, &c.
of David Wilkie has finished a very fine likeness
t,. ne Queen, which it is probable will be placed in a eon-
ft,p2l."lts part of Guildhall, on the day of the annual civic _
"val next month, which her Majesty will honour with
" Presence.
Sot
e. men were yesterday employed laying down
tpo,ihrla.ion
story to
and levelling the ground, pre-
ry to its being planted with ornamental shrubs, and
hisl.led agreeably to the plan approved by the Hon. Com-
'''ssloners of Woods and Forests.
Pheasant-shooting commenced on Monday. There
area
great number of birds in the preserves this year, and
po
Ne:tsrnen report that the outlaying birds are tolerably nu-
„, "3, considering that the early part of the breeding
a.'" was unfavourable to hatching.--Western Lunzina/y.
Pct; te
The Alaic nis and 'Marchioness of Abercorn are ex-
to arrive at their mansion on Carlton-terrace, the
de-er end of this week, from a visit to the Earl of Aber-
arr"in Haddo House, Aberdeenshire. Shortly after their
I:" they will leave for a tour on the continent.
vi 4he Earl and Countess Amherst, accompanied by
ii„3edc'ont Holmesdale and Lady Sarah Amherst have ar-
a4 ,'-it Harewood House, Yorkshire, on a visit to the Earl
Countess of Harewood,where a select circle has assemb'el.
ke ..irs.l;eil c Russian Countess Zadownski arrived in Albc-
mnr" street yesterday, from a visit to the Duke of Devon-
Chatsworth.
Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury and
muni3;:outhful son, Lod Charles Bruce, have arrived at
riois from Frankfort-on-the-Maine. The Noble Mar-
tt"til lilarehioness are not oxpeeted to return to town
Thee beginning of May.
tse, salary of the Duchess of Sctlierland, as mis-
the
ate mas. robes to her Majesty, is the saute as that of the
atitia_. -ter of the Robes to his late Majesty. 850!.
the Sir George Seymour was Master of the Robes to
at Kin..
I.NI tje yin;. 1 •
yo aIC.AL FESTIVALS.—It will be the turn of
rti"teto.tbeld a musical festival next year ; and the meeting
even f
ee choirs will take place at Gloucester. In the
her Majesty's coronation, it is anticipated that a
tht,
be the
„estival will be held in Westminster Abbey ; should
sii;gere rthe LiSe, there will be no need to engage chorus
in 1344(".'111 all I)rts of the United Kingdom, as was done
Z"eitnt' fur Landon atone can now furnish four hundred
-onie st7!s—thanks to exertions of the Sacred Bar-
„l"}".—ltlosical Wcn.a.
ht,in 1
iltileTSl3ll, EG:ci of Prospect Cottage, Glas-
- walk. '4"
formerly a ' ti; Carlow' was
ot . respectable merchantl.
kireat , •me morning of the 15th ult., through North
tic n"„o",rge'bi-street, Dublin, when he was seized wall „a
I.,‘llmedit:lt_P,iely and expired almost instantaneously ; he was
touthno,:iY, borne to a medical establishment in the neigh-
trile„vnnr.
,here several eminent surgeons and pli}sicians
1,7 but in -Jain, to restore animation.
tet,te CoNscigyCE.—A young man of La-
bra el
near Sarum, bra °la and urn, having been accused of robbery,
gave og himself up to a tree. Fortunately dig
bornewi and, to his evidrnt delight, as he literally
Lteistlech, and t.l.oecontemp!ated fatal noose Adjusted round
unsupporting branch dangling kit his
h
I.ependent.

" HER MAJESTY'S ARRIVAL.

" The Town Committee have made the following ar-
rangements:.fOr the reception of her Most Gracious Ma-
jesty the Quern on Wednesday : •
" PROGRAMME.

" The line of reception to extend from the north side
of the amphitheatre to the rural arch at the entrance to the
town, and thence to Preston.
" Barriers are erected at the rural arch, and at all the
streets ar.d places leading into the main road from the rural
arch to the amphitheatre.
" No persons on horsebaCk or in carriages can on any
account be admitted within the barriers.
" An equestrian procession will meet her Majesty beyond
Patcham, and conduct her Majesty to the northern barrier,
where they will file off by the roads leading east and west,
and no person on horseback or in carriages will be per-
mitted to follow her Majesty's carriage beyond the northern
barrier.
" The high-constable and his officers will receive her Ma-
jesty at the rural arch, and conduct her Majesty thence
through the triumphal arch and amphitheatre to the en-
trance to the palace.
" The Members for the borough of Brighton, the Magis-
trates, and clergy, will be stationed at the amphitheatre.
" The various town authorities, friendly and benefit so-
cieties, and schools, to occupy stations on the west side of
the road.
" Carriages are to form in a single line on the outside
of the road north of the rural arch.
" The stations on the western side of the road to be as
follows .
" North of the amphitheatre, opposite Marlborough-
place.—Commissioners and their officers.
" North of the Commissioners.—Parish-officers, and di-
rectors and guardians and their officers.
" From Marlborough-place towards the rural arch.—
Friendly and benefit societies in bodies divided by inhabit-
ants and visitors.
" Next to the Friendly and Benefit Societies.—Fisher-
men.
" At the rural arch.—The town band.
"At Preston. The charity schools.
" The members of the general committee are requested
to meet at the north entrance of the triumphal arch at half-
past one o clock precisely.
" The charity schools are requested to meet at Preston,
at two o'clock, and station themselves in single file on the
west side of the road.
" The friendly and benefit societies are requested to as-
semble opposite the Pavilion-parade, at two o'clock, before
taking their stations ; and members of the committee will
meet them there, and proceed with them to their respective
places.
"To avoid confusion and prevent accidents, the Com-
mittee earnestly request that the public, placing themselves
between the several abovementioned stations, will have the
consideration to remain quietly in their places, and on no
account attempt to follow the carriage of her Majesty, but
continue in their respective situations, thus alloying her
Majesty, to pass uninterruptedly within the gates of the
Palace.
" The members of the Committee will be known on this
occasion by wearing a purple sash, and carrying a wand ;
and it is hoped that the public at large will condescend to
at,znd to any suggestions such members may have occasion
to mak.al'or the preservation of good order aiid repligitY7
" T. H. WRIGHT, High Constable.
" Townehall, 644."

About a year ago (last November) the duke of
Anhalt Cothen instituted a new Order of Knighthood—tie
Order of the Bear. Hitherto not one of the Duke's own
subjects has had the new decoration conferred on him.
The Duke is obliged to look abrog.d fc)r all his bears—in his
93v1) court, we presume, be finds nottang tut Oolefr
•• dt

OCTOBER 4, 137.
THE ,),UN LON DON, WE DNE„

POST-OFFICE.

from Scotland while it
, ‘totland. Thus the Foreign Corres-
land, Leland, ant, withheld•
parti,..7l.ly in England and Ireland ;
and thus the intelligence which concentrates in London, and
would be diffused by the Morning Press over the kingdom,
is shut up for twelve hours daily in 1.02d0n, at the nod and
9r: nrid:vac
being
ofg all
expedited Europe
;
bidding of coach proprietors and Post-office servants paid
enormously by the public. In other words, the Post-office
olicials have been hoodwinked, or are wilfully culpable of
withholding the just rights and privileges of the people of
of England, Ireland, and Scotland, in order to enable the
proprietors of coaches running from London, to spurge on
the Proprietors of the Periodical Press for payment of such
Morning Newspapers as they carry, which Newspapers the
right to get free, and the press to send free;
wouldd o was there even the semblance of informa-
tion,piseobpol both
have a
lliberality, or justice, in the management of the Post-
office. These are my firm convictions--if lam in error—
if I have taken an erroneous or ungenerous view of the case,
let the post-office tell the public why they do send morning
mails, or any mails whatever, without newspapers ifthere be
any to send. At present very many of the evening mails
may be seen leaving St. Martin's-le-Grand loaded like bag.
gage waggons, unmercifully for horses, dangerously f3i. pas_
sengers, and disgracefully for a great public department--
which department I have often accused before of gross ig-
norance or wilful misconduct ; and here repeat the charge
that the public may judge between us.
Thus the nation has been saddled with no less than three
useless mail coaches sent into Scotland alone in July last,
rather than fairly try in practice the well-working cheap
Irish system, sanctioned by the Treasury, and recommend-
ed by the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Mis-
management of the Post-office. The coaches I allude to
arc, the Second mail coaches from London to Edinburgh
and Glasgow, which take no letters or newspapers to these
cities—and the Pair mail coach from Edinburgh through
Fife. During Sir Francis Freeling's Postmaster-General-
ship, the rule was to put on, and keep on no mail coach
which did not pay—but rather to send mail carts or gigs.
I should like to know how the no letter-bag mail coaches
to Glasgow and Edinburgh pay—and how the profit and
loss account would stand between the pair horse mail coach
from Edinburgh through Fife, as compared with the ex-
pense of employing the stage coach. All this arises out of
the present system of managing the Post-office, which is
absolutely ludicrous. It being partly in the hands of the
Secretary to the Post-office, partly in those of the private
Secretary to the Postmaster-General, who is also paid by
the country, partly under the Treasury, and in a small de-
gree, unfortunately, under the control, or rather under
fear, of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the
management of the Post-office ; and all this waste and ab-
surdity is coolly submitted to by the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, rather than follow vigorously up, in proper time,
the decision of the House of Commons—to have the office
of Postmaster-General placed in Commission.
Is the conduct above described worthy of a great depart-
ment? Does not such pitirul acts as these, and which are
to be found in many similar instances, call aloud for an entire
change in its administration ? It assuredly does ; and I
shall just conclude with stating my firm conviction of the
correspondence and morning newspapers of the country
being still detained fourteen hours daily in London, our
letter postage kept up to its present enormous and incon-
venient rate, circuitous routes being persisted in, in order
to effect a barefaced fraud on the public, by charging post-
age for delaying in place of expediting their letters, and no
practical improvement being made on the principle of put-
ting down smuggling of letters by stage coach employment
to convey letter-bags, so long as the Post-office is under the
management of a Postmaster-General and a Secretary,
neither of whom were bred up in the department, and of
necessity cannot know almost anything of its numerous de-
tails and practical difficulties ; and therefore must be at the
mercy of those who from prejudices and personal interests
will continue to mislead them.

TO THE INHABITANTS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND
IRELAND, AND, ESPECIALLY, TO THE CON
DUCTORS OF THE PERIODICAL PRESS.
Kelly, by Greenock, Sept. 18, 1637.
Being desirous of publishing widely the following con:-
munication from the Posttnaster•General, n ith my own
observations thereon, through the medium of the periodic.ii
press, with a view to elicit discussion and procur" information
before Paeiam.t t assembles, I shall offer no cth,2r apology
for using the freedom of forwarding the copy enclosed, than
to express my belief of much private comfort, and great
public advantage, in facilitating correspondence, being likely
to ensue from the general adoption in this great commer-
cial country of the system alluded to below :
General Post-office, July 24, 1837.

- -
Sir—l beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the
20th inst., and to inform you that the question whether bags
of letters might not be sent by private stage-coaches has
been submitted to the Lords of the Treasury, who have ex-
pressed their opinion that the principle may be safely
adopted in any case where it may be deemed expedient,
provided the proprietors of the coach will agree to a
stipulation in the contract fur the service that the conveyance
of the Post-office bags is not to relieve them from the pay-
ment of the tolls which may be chargeable. In regard to
the employment of a regular guard, I cannot give any defi-
nite answer upon this subject at the present moment ; such
an appointment must depend entirely upon circumstances.-
1 have the honour to Ls, Sir, your obedient humble servant,
" To Robert Wallace, Esq." " LICHFIELD."
I have delayed publishing the above until the elections
were over, and the consequent excitement had so far sub-
sided as to make it probable the attention of the public
would be given to a change so manifestly involving the con-
venience of the people at large ; more especially those resi-
dent in localities not intersected by great lines of road
having mail coaches travelling on them, and such as require
more frequent opportunities of correlsondence. I may
just remark that at present, mail bags are sent exclugively
by mail coaches or carts in England and Scotland, although
for many years past the Irish Post-office have dispatched
letter bags all over that country, not in mail coaches exclu-
sively, but by stage carriages of all sorts and descriptions,
with perfect security and regularity as respects their con-
veyance, and with great advantage to the public, the reve-
nue, and the conveyance of passengers. It will now de-
pend on the people of Great Britain, whether the boon or
cheap and frequent posts, acceded to by the Treasury, and
hitherto strenuously opposed by the Post-office department,
shall be available or a dead letter. I have every reason to
believe that the same obstacles will continue to be thrown
in the way of increasing the communications by post as have
hitherto been ; and that by one contrivance or other, every
attempt will be frustrated by the Pest-office department of
sending mail bags, containing letters and newspapers, by
stage coaches.
The unwillingness of this LAG-A-BAG department to
adopt the same system in Britain which has answered so
well in Ireland, may be gathered from the fact, of the pub-
lic being still kept in ignorance of the fiat of the Treasury,
in behalf of increased facilities to the commercial world of
communicating, frequently and legally, by post, in place of
being foreed"to smuggle their letters, as they do at present,
in so very many instances, and in such large numbers as
they will and ought to do until otherwise better accommo-
dated with frequent opportunities. Why, let it be asked,
have the Post-office not intimated by advertisement all over
Great Britain, that the Treasury have decreed in favour of
the beneficial policy and practice established by the Irish- '
Post-office and recommended by Lord Duncannon and the
other Post-office Commissioners, being extended to this
country ? It cannot be on the score of expense—the Post-
office has not advertised, for it is lavish enough in this re-
spect when to threaten prosecutions ; and therefore I can
see no other reason for withholding the information, but a
desire to evade doing anything which will essentially serve
the public and save expense, when recommended or sug-
gested from any quarter without the walls of St. Martin's
le-Grand.

I may be wrong in this conclusion. Let the proof be the
refusal or the granting of increased facilities of communi-
cating by post through stage coach letter conveyance to all
who require it of the Postmaster-General ; as very many
towns and villages will do, now that they are informed the
want of Posts, or the inconvenience of the hours of the pre-
sent Post, may be obviated, while inland communication
will be increased and cheapened, with benefit to the revenue
and without contravening the Postage Law. Let applica-
cations be made and the result published in the provincial
newspapers, and the public will judge justly of the services
conferred by its best support, the Press, and of my humble
but zealous endeavours to bring the convenience and useful-
ness of correspondence within the reach of the pecuniary
means of the whole body of the people, even the poorest in
the land.

I have striven for three years past to have the principle
of stage conveyance of letter-bags corceded ; the Treasury,
it seems, have at length sanctioned it. The Pest-office
have concealed it ; and would have kept it secret still, I
verily believe, had I not ascertained the fact by direct in-
terrogatory.

In proof of the dogged determination to evade the use of
stage coaches, I adduce the following fact :—The inhabi-
tants of the large, populous, and rich county of Fife, in
Scotland, had for years complained of having a tedious
and circuitous ►nail coach route for the conveyance of their
correspondence and newspapers from London. A capital
well appointed four-horse coach, going at mail coach speed,
was passing all the while, directly through the centre of the
county. Petitions and memorials in abundance were sent
to the House of Commons, the- Post-office, and the Trea-
sury, to have the London letter-bags sent direct from Edin--
burgh by this coach, with the speed and security of which
those interested were perfectly satisfied. These memorials
and petitions were in part intrusted to myself and presented
during the last session. I did all I could do to have their
most reasonable prayer conceded, and got a promise that
something should be done. Well, something has been done.
Tenders were advertised for by tho Post-office, not for
taking the letter-bags by stage coaches, but for conveying a
mail coach with a pair of horses through the said county of
Fife, which had alwelys been refused or evaded when ap-
plied for before ; and a mail coach has been built on pur-
pose, and a Guard employed, and now runs in competition
with the same very excellent coach, having four horses, be
it observed, by which the inhabitants proposed to have the
mail bags sent. The Post-office took care to have no ten-
ders taken for conveying the letter-bags by stage coaches,
which I am credibly informed would have carried them,
as in Ireland, for a mere trifle, but it took good care to
punish the people especially for their presumption, for the
postage on letters has absolutely been raised in the locality
since the establishment of the Pair Horse Thing, having
Royal Arms on the panneis, and Red-Coated Gentleman
behind.

VS.—Since the above was in type, I have seen state-
ments in variGus London Newspapers of the refusal by the
Post-office to take Newspapers by the morning mails. The
Times distinctly states that the new morning mail for Bir-
mingham, Chester, Holyhead, and all Ireland, is debarred
from taking newspapers. I rejoice to find at last the Post-
office in open collision with the people. It has for long
covertly obstructed all improvements un a great scale, but
this is too bad." I believe it is illegal to detain news-
papers after a mail starts to where they are addressed. The
Postmaster-General takes a solemn oath—see the Act—
that he will not delay any letter or thing sent through the
Post. The-Times newspaper and all others are correspond-
ence to the extent of all for whom they are addressed
through the Post-office. At all events, they are Things.
My Lord Lichfield is in good hands—it the intelligence, in-
fluence, wealth, and spirit of the Morning press of London
cannot obtain Liberality and Justice, no class can. I would
humbly recommend to that deservedly influential body to
put their papers into the Post-office a reasonable and cus-
tomary time before the morning mails are to start, and fairly
try if that department will dare to withhold the then public
correspondence and property confided to its official care ;
and if they do, I trust the Press will give my Lot d Lichfield
the benefit of the opinion of twelve honest Englishmen
on the nature of his official duty, and the construction of his
oath.—l have the honour to be, with profound revect, your
faithful Servant, ROBERT WALLACE.

....
Another striking example may be adduced. The Post-
office Commission had recommended more frequently daily
dispatches of letters and newspapers from London than are
at present. The Treasury had sanctioned the employment
of stage coaches, and I had pressed so constantly on both,
that the Post-office folks saw that something must be done.
Well, it was decreed that something should be done—and
Mr. Labouchere, on the part of the Government, intimated,
from his place in the House of Commons, to a question put
by me, that two mails would be sent daily to Glasgow and
Edinburgh, and to other large towns, when the Railway
from Birmingham to Liverpool was opened. I urged in
every quarter and in every way I could, to have the excel-
lent stage coaches which run to York, Manchester, Birming-
ham, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Exeter, Bristol, &c.,
&c., fairly tried for this service : and the public will stare
with amazement when I announce that the reason assigned.
by Vie Post-office for declining was, that if these facilities
were granted to the large towns mentioned, and to Scot-
land, every other town in the kingdom would expect and de-
mand 'the same accommodation ; in other words, the Post-
office is, according to its own confession, a grinding mono-
poly, which cannot supply all its customers. My instant
reply was that such was my" hope and intention, and that
they must all get it whenever properly demanded, for they
were justly entitled to every facility. Well, two mail coaches
are sent every night at eight o'clock from London to Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, at the very same hour, cheek by jowl I
of each other, the one coach having letter-bags and news-
papers enough to destroy passengers, horses, and coach, and
the ether coach having no mails or newspapers for Odin-
' burgh and Glasgow. This has been done to evade sending
a .day mail, and is what is considered at the Post-office, as
keeping faith with Mr. Labouchere, myself, and the people
of Scotland. Mails, instead of stage coaches, as a matter of
course, were preferred on the roads to Manchester and
Liverpool. These I ascertained were to take the Foreign
letters only, which arrive in London in-the morning, and
no newspapers. I instantly remonstrated at the Trea-
sury, and with the Post-office Commissioners, against
this absurd waste of public money, and insisted that
the said morning mails should be started at an hour to
take the London morning newspapers. Here I was
again defeated, The session was running rapidly_ to 4 claw,
consequently I could get no support in the House of Com-
mons, and so was obliged to leave London in the conviction
of the Post-office having gained its point, of shutting out
the use of stage coaches for a time, and entirely excluding
the Lowden morning newspapers from their just Sh4rl3 of
circulation, and the people from their lndispntable right of
having the very earliest intelligence which can be conveyed,
while the public purse is paymaster. Since the close of
the session I have been looking attentively at all the Post-
office movements—and am now thoroughly convinced I had
comp to a right conclusion at the very first, and have
often expressed it et'Pn io high quarters, as tq the
causes of the unwillingness on the part of the Post-office
to obey the Treasury in fairly trying stage coach con-
veyance for mail bags, and serving the people, by dispatching
mails at various hours of the day in place of one hour only,
which insures the detention of Foreign letters and London
moping PPYYTapprs fionr
ii:taLo4odndon. The
my opinion is, the which fitst and main cause
cer-
tainly would be made on the ease and convenience of the
largely overpaid drones who are the moving wires within
St, Martin's-le-Grand. The second cause is, Lord Lich-
field and fiolonel Maberley baying been oiasrreaohid by
mail contractors and the great coach proprietors in London,
whose interest it is to increase and maintain the expensive
mail coach system, with its high mileage, and guards to
every coach paid and ciothed by the country, in place of
adop'ting in lia t, and whoa viper and eonyottiept,' the fai
cheaper sys em of sending mail bags by stage coaches.
Thu; the influence of coach propriMmrs in London prepon-
derates over the interests and rights of the people of Eng-

VEGETA BLE WONDEIL-There are now exhibited
in the window of Messrs. 'l'. and J. Hutton, Seedsmen,
two gourds, grown at Rose Castle, the seat of the Bishop
of Carlisle, by Mr. Fairly. The circumference of the
larger is sft. 10in., and weighed, when cut, 1151bs. ; the
other, grown from the same shoot, and within a sew inches
of it, weighs 841b5., and measures, in circumference, sft. ;
the weight of both together being 1991b5. ! The larger of
these monstrosities was measured accurately every morn-
ing and evening, by Mr. F., and was found to increase about
an inch and a half in bulk every 24 hours ; and it may be
mentioned as rather singular, that its increase was generally
nearly twice as much through the night, as during the day.
—Carlisle Journal.

Professor Sedgwick has written a letter to Mr.
Williamson Peile, of Workington, in which he has enclosed
a draught for nearly 401., which has been subscribed by the
gentlemen forming the meeting of the Geological Section
of the British Association, at their late meeting at Liver-
pool, on his mentioning the brave and generous conduct of
a miner named Brennan, who, after having saved four indi-
viduals front the jaws of death, returned, at the hazard of
his own life, to the stables in the mine, and effected the
escape of an old man (the father of a large family), who
would hare perished but for his assistance. Mr. Sedg-
wick wished the above-named sum of money to be given to
the man, with a suitable address, in the presence of his
fellow-workmen, which was complied with on Tuesday by
Mr. Peile, who went to Parton Pit, where Brennan is now
employed, and, calling the men together, he paid a high
compliment to Brennan's c•uitage and humanity, and ex-
horted his fellow•workmen to follow his example, in cases
of similar emergency and danger.—Cumberland Packet.
We understand a new piece has just been accepted
at the Haymarket Theatre, front the pen of Mr. Frederick
Lawrance, a gentleman well known in the world of periodi-
cal literature,

BALL-ROOM LEGISLATION.----A cause is actually
pending before one of the provincial tribunals of France
in which the plaintiff sues the defendant for damages, be-
cause the defendant's wife refused to dance with the plaintiff
at a public ball. The touchy gentleman, it seems, who
has arrived at the age of 58, solicited the honour of the
lady's hand for a quadrille, but the lady excused herself on
the plea of indisposition. A few minutes afterwards a
similar invitation from a somewhat less venerable beau was
moat graciously accepted. The offended preztx chevaliei•
does not appear to have challenged his more successful
rival, but to have contented himself with defying the lady
and her husband to the lists of the Court of a Julie de
Pals, where he claims an indemnification of sixty francs for
the injury inflicted on him, and calls upon the tribunal to
command the fair offender to abstain from a repetition of
the offeneo, to submit to dance with him on every
festive occasion when it may be his august pleasure to
favour her with his commands. •

THE SwALLow.—About eight o'clock of the
morning of Wednesday, last week, the body of the :;,o birds
which appeared to have qonitiNted the northern division
of those 1.1:141-1 Filake the British isles their summer habita-
tion, passed over Perth, on their way south, in such incal-
culable numbers, that for some minutes the sun teas actually
as much darkened as if a cloud fiver 1.4"'
The passage wa 41ewes. att aeilount of the circling
motion 'ln vwriielt tley advanced—their gyrations forming
high circles, apparently each in a separate course. Their
course was due north and south ; and by nine o'clock the
last stragglers of the rear passed ; and sippe 01313 there have
been but fey observed ip 1.144 I,4!iohowhocia, The tome of
their de'paritiie ieeins to haw been nearly a week in advAuct
of the usual period ; and the weather seers are naturally
predicting a severe, or at least an early winter, from the ttirt
cumstance.—Perth Paper.