The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-27 00:00:00

MILITIA BALLOTS SUSPENSION.

The Militia Ballots Suspension Bill was read a third time and
passed.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned at a 2uarter before Two.

BIRMINGHAM.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

FRIDAY, FIVE O'CLOCK P.M.

We are still in the undisturbed enjoyment of peace. Trade and
industry are resumed, and all the late excitement has sunk into a
calm. False alarms are, however, very rife, and every minute
produces in the Public Office some extraordinary intelligence of
pikes, combustible balls, and " crew hells," itc.
The approaching trials engage all attention, and every exertion
is making to secure a favourable result to the accused. There will
not be more than six witnesses examined for the defence. The
Warwick Assizes open to-morrow, and the Judges will deliver their
charge on Monday.

The Bill for a Local Police turns out a most unpalatable morsel
to the people of Birmingham.

PENNY POST FRANK.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR-A great deal is being said about difficulty of ar-
ranging the penny post system ; pray allow me space to
endavour to show that it may be done easily and imme-
diately, with very small addition to present rules of
office. Medicine stamps are well known at lid. each ;
they are printed, many on a sheet, in various colours,
with a very expensive machine (a model of one
is shown in Woolwich Repository), and are considered
safe from forgery. Such would, therefore, do very well
for post stamps.
The Post-office put two marks on the back of every
unpaid letter—one, the name of the town whence it
comes ; the other, the date of its arrival in London.
Now, if it be provided that every letter shall have a
stamp affixed on the back of it, the said post marks can
be put partly over the stamp, which (particularly the
date) would prevent its being used a second time ; and
in order to induce the use of stamps, or pre-payment,
it would be no great penalty to charge all letters with-
out stamps double, or 2d. The receivers of letters
would soon arrange that matter with their correspond-
ents, the senders. An arrangement for larger letters,
by putting two or more penny stamps on, according to
the weight of the letter, is, of course, easy. This plan
could be used by all public, as well as merchants'
offices. Parliamentary papers, under regulations—as
open at the ends, &-c.—could be franked ; also packets
fromer fa
public
franking to
offices,
sbe if thought fit. AU Peers and Mem-
bersabolished, of course. It would be of
no value.
0 it
circulate
is V
obviu t
hse that
Nhoo would
stampsa the
;
skfor a penny frank ?
Now, i
s o
n ly preparation neces-
sary
every shop where writ-
ing paper and pens are sold, would become also a place
for the sale of post stamps, and competition would soon
settle the rate of profit. Some shops, where there is
small vend, would perhaps sell six stamps for 7d., others
twelve for Is. Id. ; per tentage or profit decreasing ac-
cording to the business done. Government would get
the full price,
there being no discount.
With so simple an arrangement, can you, Mr. Editor,
see why the popular measure cannot be put in operation
in a month, or even less ; as it is not at all probable a
very large increase of letters will occur at first, and it
is admitted that the letter-sorters can do much more
than they do at present ; indeed, the above mode would
greatly simplify their work. X. Y.

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—.-.AII escape of a mira-
culous nature happened to a gentleman yesterday,, opposite
the Duke of Wellington's House, in Piccadilly. He was
riding a thorough-bred grey mare down the ride in Hyde
Park, when she bolted by the bridge at the Serpentine, and
proceeded at full speed towards Apsley House. Every one
believed she would have gone straight to the side railings
of the Duke's, but the entleman, by great exertion, turned
her through the gate close to the house, and Was endea.
vouring to get her down the Green Park side of Picca-
dilly, when the animal came with terrific violence against
the iron railings of the Green Park. The gentleman was
thrown, but, strange to say, sustained no injury. The
mare forced her legs through the bars, and was much hurt. ,
The name of the gentleman did not transpire.
THE LENGTH OF A LAWYER'S BEARD.
In a parliament of the Inner Temple, held 6th of May, Ist
~and 2d Philip and Mary, a decree was made that niifaotr'
of that house should wear his beard above three weeks
growth, upon pain of 20s. forfeiture.

July 26, 1839.

THOMAS RAFFLES, Liverpool.
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LONDON :
SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1839.

THE TURKISH FLEET BETRAYED TO
MEHEMET ALL
The Moniteur of yesterday has been received in
London by extraordinary express. It brings the fol-
lowing disastrous intelligence from the East :
THE AGENT or FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO THE PRESIDENT

OF THE COUNCIL.

" Marseilles, July 25, Three, P.M.
"On the Bth the Sultan's death was known at
Alexandria. On the 9th a Turkish corvette, leaving on
board Nezib Bey, Keaga of the Capitan Pacha,
charged to announce to the Viceroy the presence of
the Capitan Pacha at Sianhio, sailing towards Rhodes,
and to propose to him to place the Turkish
fleet under his protection, to guarantee it against the
troubles to be; feared in Turkey on the Sultan's deal/i.
The Viceroy's reply is not known, but he has sent the
steamer, the Black Sea, to the Capitan Pacha. On
the 10th, Astriff Effendi, sent by the young Sultan to
announce his father's death to the Viceroy, arrived at
Alexandria."

PARIS, FRIAY, 5 P.
The above news has produced a great D
sensation,l and
the diplomatic corps is in dismay.
The Augsburg Gazette of the 22d, instant states that
the two fleets, Turkish and Egyptian, will sail to COW;
stantinople together to overturn the new order of things!
The Semaphore of Marseilles of the 23d announces
the arrival of the Prince de Joinville at Constantinople
on the Bth.

Ibrahim's bulletin of the victory says that he would
pursue the army, but he cannot find them.
Letters from Alexandria of the 6th state great joy to
prevail there. On the 28th ult. M. Caille, the French
Envoy, had not arrived at Ibrahim's head-quarters.

The Lords seem envious of the pure air enjoyed by the
Commons. They are grown tired of their own foul air, and
anxious to have it purified by Dr. REID. The Earl of
WICKLOW made some touching inquiries on the matter
last night of Lord DCNCANNON, and was informed that
their Lordships' House could be purified, but that it would
require a considerable expense. Their Lordships will
probably, therefore continuo to luxuriate in a foul atmos-
phere.

The Irish, or as it has been called, the Outrageous Com-
mittee, was the subject of some discussion. Lord HA-
THERTON adverted to the extracts published in the Dublin
Evening Mail, which Lord WHARNCLTFFE admitted did
not express the sense of the Committee. The lying Tory
Journals are at their usual work of producing false impres-
sions by garbled extracts and perverted quotations.
Lord 13aotiottau handed to the Marquis of Noe.
MA NET his Index to the important matters
which the Marquis will have to answer iii the
evidence taken before the Committee. The Earl of
WICKLOW took the opportunity to object to Lord BROUG-
HAM bringing on his promised motion this Session. Other
Peers seemed to take the same view, particularly the Duke
of 'WELLINGTON, whose observations made the Noble and
Learned Lord give signs of relenting. He is to reconsider
the matter, and, if he persist in bringing forward his pre.
raised motion, will put the Peers in possession of his in-
tentions on Thursday next.
The Saannon stone, which has been proposed as a fit
material to build the Houses of Parliament of, was stated
by Lord DUNCANNON, on the authority of Mr. Barry, not
to be easily worked.
The LORD CHANCELLOR announced that he had commu-
nicated with the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE on his opinion of
the concurrent jurisdiction of County Magistrates in char-
tered towns, and the Lorn CHIEF JUSTICE had
admitted that he was in error. No declaratory
law therefore will be required ; but when the LORD
CHIEF JCSTICE is not acquainted with the law, it must
be excusable in the people not to know it ; and it is cruel,
as well as unjust, to break their heads for ignorance while
he is honoured.
The Marquis of NORMANBY MOVed the committal of the
Canada Government Bill, and explained its provisions.
polLicoyrdasßtoaoLontivta Opposedl and condemned the whole
Lords GOSFORD:I II
_long and able speech.
and DURHAM, who have both been Go-
vernors of Canada, spoke un_the'subject.
The Bill went through a Committee after a division on
one clause, which was retained in h
The Lords sat till Half-past Twelve Bill by 56 to 49.
e_o'Clock.
In the Commons the presentat
Con for education, in which the cl",nac'hrohe Catholic peti-
entered into a
defence of their fa.; h, excited some attention.
Mr. Mr. GILLON vve notice that he would for the 1
abolition of all official franking, and Mr.
re dip
that
he will move a call of the House on the secoxid reading or
the Bank of Ireland Bill.
Mr. LABOUCHERE, in presenting papers on the Hill
' Coolies, stated that the mortality amocgst them at Deme
was not confined, as he had at first supposed, to on:
rara
est ite.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM, with the kind of bastard
humanist' which makes the Engl-sh landlords very
reaardful of the black slaves of the West India
planters, and utterly regardless of the white slaves
whom they doom to wtetenedness and death at home, in-
quired whether the Government meant to take any steps
ou the set jest this Session. Mr. LAroUcHERZ doubted. We
have, however, no doub', that the sickness, misery, and
mortality in tha crowded streets of our manufactu-
ring towns, as, for example, Glasgow, according to
the Report of the Hand-loom Wearer Commissioners,
exceed all that is to be met wit}, in Demerara ;
but to that the very men who pretend to compassionate
the blacks doom their own countrt men. It has long ago been
t:emonstr, ted
, by hosts of medical witnesses, that insuffi-
ciency. of toucl causes the greater part of 'he dn:eases of
the poor; and the very gist of the Corn-law is to limit the
supply of food. They prohibit the growth of corn till it
rea,4"g a eertain price, and prevPnt that superfluity of
'cod with which Nature, in its hourly, rewards the industry
Of Mail

The House, after some conversation, went into a C"•.11"'

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