The Sun.
London, England, 1837-03-28 00:00:00

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The solicitor of the Post-office has given an opinion
" that a stage-coach, conveying a bag of letters under the
authority of the Postmaster-General, would be entitled to
exemption from toll, unless a stipulation should be entered
into at the time of any agreement that such exemption
should not be claimed or exercised."
We consider that it would be unfair to the turnpike
trusts to take advantage of this exemption in cases where
stage coaches, carrying a large number of passengers, are
employed to carry bags of letters ; and, therefore, recom-
mend that the proprietors of such coaches shall be expressly
prohibited from claiming any such exemption.
DETENTION OF LETTERS ON SUNDAY.
In addition to the delay of 14 hours, which daily occurs
to letters passing through London, the whole correspondence
in transit is once a week detained for as hours, in conse-
quence of bags not being forwarded on Sunday, although
the coaches arrive at, and depart from, the Post-office as
usual.
We are not disposed to recommend any change which
would interfere with the proper observance of Sunday in
the metropolis, which we conceive would be the case if a
general delivery of letters took place on that day. Since it
is, however, necessary to despatch the coaches on Sunday
evening, we cannot see any objection to their carrying the
letters passing through London, and giving the commercial
towns throughout the kingdom the advantage of receiving
those letters a day earlier than they do at present.
We requested the heads of the different departments at
the Post-office to consider by what means this could best be
effected, bearing in mind that we were desirous to avoid, as
much as possible, imposing any duties in addition to those
which, under the existing arrangements, are required from
the Post-office clerks on Sunday. Mr. Louis has submitted
a plan by which be proposes to forward the whole of the
correspondence by the mails on Sunday without passing
through London at all, and at an expense of about 400/.
a-year. His proposition is " that, at the end of every line
of road nearest London, a post should be despatched,
making a sort of circle round London ; starting, for instance,
from Romford, and going as far as Hounslow, passing, by
that means, through Epping, Waltham-cross, Barnet, Edge-
ware, and Southall ; a post also to start from Shooter's
hill, through Bromley, Croydon, and Kingston, to Hounslow ;
then an interchange of letters to take place, and the posts
return to the places from whence they start."
There are, however, some objections to Mr. Louis's plan ;
the foreign correspondence would be left out, unless some
other arrangements were made for its transmission, and also
it is obvious, that although no labour would be imposed on
the officers of the department in London, the whole of the
post-offices round the metropolis would have additional
duties to perform. There is now a regular attendance in the
foreign department of the Post-office on Sunday, and pro-
bably the more convenient plan of forwarding the letters
will be to allow the attendance of a few additional clerks,
who will be able to sort and prepare for transmission by
the evening mails, all the foreign and other correspondence
which may be brought into London on Sunday morning.
The recommendations which we have made to your
Lordships have reference solely to expediting letters pass-
ing through London. We shall have afterwards to con.
sider whether the means adopted to effect this object may
not be extended and rendered availaible for giving to the
metropolis the benefit of two communications daily with
the populous towns throughout the kingdom. We wish,
however, to defer our report on this subject, until we shall
have had an opportunity of miemining into the arrangement
of the inland and twopenny-post departments, with a view
to ascertain what increase will be required in the esta-
blishment to provide for the additional duties which a se-
cond arrival and despatch of letters will occasion.
DAY-MAIL TO EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW.

Although we are not yet prepared to express our
opinion with respect to a general despatch of day-mails
from London, we have very fully considered the proposal
which has been made for establishing a day-mail to Edin-
bugh and Glasgow, which would likewise have conveyed
letters for Liverpool, Manchester, and all other towns on
that line of road The attention of the officers of the
post office having been called to this subject, we subjoin
an extract from the evidence of Colonel Maberly, stating
the conclusion he had come to :
(Extract from the evidence of Colonel Maberly.)
" You have hitherto spoken upon the subject of day-
coaches ; have you turned yeur attention at all to the ques-
tion, whether it would be desirable to establish day-mails
to any part of the kingdom ?—I was induced, in conse-
quence of the evidence given before the Commissioners by
Mr. Wallace, to turn my attention to the practicability of
a day-mail to Edinburgh and Glasgow ; end I requested
Mr. Louis, who was despatched to Scotland to look into
the question of the acceleration of the Scotch mails ge-
nerally to turn his attention to this subject while he
was on the spot. Mr. Louis has given me a long re-
port upon the subject, in which he comes to the conclu-
sion—in which I think 1 he is perfectly correct—that,
though a day-mail would be perfectly practicable, yet as it
could not be established before April, as we could not get
rid of the existing contracts before that time, and the rail-
road would be coming into operation between Birmingham
and Liverpool and Manchester, it would not be worth while
to establish a day-mail in April, when the railroad is coming
into operation in the autumn (the surveyor of the district
reports to me that he understands, instead of being com-
pleted in the autumn, it will be in operation in July). You
would have given additional facilities to all the towns be-
-tween London and Edinburgh, and London and Glasgow,
which facilities you would have in almost all to limit, in
many instances to withdraw, three months afterwards, to
the great dissatisfaction of all those places, which we find
generally complain of any great alteration in the circulation
of their letters, unless the benefit is so evident that it re
moves all possibility of complaint. By a time-bill which I
have made out, I find that a mail starting from London
at one o'clock in the afternoon would arrive in Edinburgh
at 21 minutes past six A.M., and at Glasgow at 25 minutes
pas six, A.m., the third day, by the route of Carlisle, taking
the speed to be ten miles an hour. I took the departure
at one o'clock, as affording two clear hours for correspon-
dence after the hours of business opening in London on
the Exchange ; those hours being at ten, and it being
necessary for the purpose of sorting that an hour at least
should be given, leaves two clear hours for writing after
the commencement of business ; which I looked upon as
so gr-eat an advantage to the merchant and the man of
business, that it seemed to me, upon the whole, that one
o'clock would be about the best hour at which a day-mail
could be started. The arrival, therefore, of the mails at
Glasgow and Edinburgh would be twenty-five minutes past
six, and twenty-one minutes past six, respectively. This
mail would have been in addition very convenient ; inas-
much as it would have conveyed the correspondence to
Manchester at half-past seven the second morning; from
whence, of course, it might have been speedily conveyed to
Liverpool by the railroad ; thus giving Manchester and
Liverpool nearly the same accommodation as Edinburgh
and Glasgow. It should be understoed that my idea was,
that from Carlisle there should be a branch mail, branching
off from the Edinburgh mail to Glasgow. Such was the
conclusion to which I was disposed to come, and which, in
all probability, I should have recommended to the consi-
deration of the Postmaster-General, had it not been that I
had reason to believe the railroad would be completed at
such an early period. To satisfy myself of the little use
there would be in establishing a day-mail after the railroad
should be completed, I caused a calculation to be made
of the probable time of arrival in Edinburgh and Glasgow
of the mail, when conveyed partly by coach and partly by
the railroad (taking its state to be such as, from the reports
I have received of its progress, I may fairly assume it will
be next summer), and I found that conveying the mail by
coach to Coventry, and from thence taking it on the rail-
road to Preston, and thence taking it by coach the re-
mainder of the distance to Edinburgh and Glasgow, I can
get an arrival at Glasgow of the mail which starts at eight
o'clock at night, at 40 minutes past seven in the morning, and
of the Edinburgh mail at ten minutes past eight in the morn-
ing; thus making not quite two hours' difference between the
arrival of the day-mail which started at one o'clock, and the
arrival of the evening-mail which started at eight, and
which would convey the correspondence partly by coach
and partly by railroad. In estimating the speed of the
railroad, I calculated it at twenty miles per hour.
,4 With reference to the mail which would, according to
your supposition, leave London in the day-time, could
not you equally avail yourself of the facilities of the rail-
road ?—That would entirely depend upon a point which
as yet is not aseertaiiied—whether railroads can be tra-
velled on by night. It may be accomplished by gas-lights,
and strong lights for short distances, and I believe is so,
but it is very questionable whether such a system could be
made available for long distances. The mail starting
at one o'clock of the day would get down to Coventry at

a quarter past ten at night ; consequently, unless the engine
could travel, the letters would have to wait at C6ventry
till it was light next morning, and the advantage of the day-
mail would be in a great measure lost by the delay of six or
seven hours at Coventry. The mail, starting from London
nt eight o'c!ock in the evening, as at present, would get
down td cei,yentry. at ten miles an hour, at about a quarter
160. five o'clock in the morning, thus enabling it to be con-
y, rd along the railroad without the least delay, and at an
hoti.-, in ell probability, when, for the purposes cf general
communication between . places, trains would be running.
Thus, the evening mail would have the advantage of the
railroad, while the day mail, upon the supposition that
engines cannot be used at night on railroads, would be
exclud,d."
Assuming that it.mty 1, practicable, at so early a period
to )nvey •:,,bi-elt leave London at eight o'clock
at night to it'Ainhorgh and Glasgow in about 36 hours, we
must concur with Colonel Maberly's opinion, that it would
he inexpedient to alter the post communication at present.
On no lighter grounds, however, should we have hesitated
to recommend strongly to your Lordships to sanction this
establishment of a mail which would have afforded so great
an accommodation to the metropolis of Scotland, and three
of the most important commercial towns in the kingdom.
CONSOLIDATION OF THE ACTS RELATING TO THE rosv

OFFICE DEPARTMENT.

We have bad frequent occasion to observe the incon-
venience which is occasioned by the multiplicity of statutes
which relate to the revenue and management of the Post-
office department. On communicating with Mr. Peacock,
the solicitor, on this subject, we found that he had already
been engaged in preparing Bills, with a view to the consoli-
datio❑ of the whole of the existing Acts of Parliament,
amounting to 141. We requested him to complete the
work which he had undertaken, and he has now prepared
four Bills :—The first, a Bill to repeal all the Acts, and
parts of Acts, relating to the Post-office ; the second, a Bill
for the general management and regulation of the Post-
office ; the third, a Bill to regulate the privilege of fratk-
ing ; and the fourth, a Bill to consolidate the criminal laws
relating to the Post-office.
We conceive that it would be expedient to propose this
consolidation to Parliament, and to introduce the Bills
which have been prepared by Mr. Peacock for that purpose.
DUNCANNON,
H. LABOUCHERE,
SEYMOUR.

Office of Woods, Feb. 1.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUSTOM-HOUSE,

MARCH 27.
The Calpe, Loughton, from Malaga; Giraffe, Strannack,
Rotterdam; Erasmus, Fellack, Rotterdam; Lebra, Enydmaii,
Amsterdam ; Elphinstone, Teremlin, Hobart Town; Cara-
tares, Oliver, Ceylon.
ENTERED OUTWARDS.
The Eliza, Follett, for St. John's, Newfoundland; Julie,
Faillant, Calais; Ranger, Bertram, Cape of Good Hope;
Gonst George, Haacks, Stettin; Maas, Blake, Rotterdam;
Argyle, Sandys, Madras ; Grondstadt, Johnson, Bergen.
CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.
The Ocean, Fell, for Tobago; Charles, Hutchings, New.
foundland ; Calypso, Mason, Quebec; Argus, Schully, New
York; Ann, Tossa, Genoa.
CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST.
The Marmion, Hopper, for Quebec; Ethelbert, Moon,
Bathurst; Sophia Maria, Heirth, Norway; Watson, Frosts
Riga ; Frederick, Rode, Elsineur ; Elizabeth, Norwick, Que-
bec ; Edward, Thompson, Quebec; Tobago, Hauuescballt
Quebec.

ARRIVALS AT LIVERPOOL, MARCH 26.
The Ralph, Nicholas, from Mobile ; Despatch, Carter, HS'
lifax ; Secret, Gates, St. Michael's; Jeffer Johanna, Holker,
Leer ; Wilkem, Fritzem, Embden ; Vrou Maria, Aden,
Embden ; Catherine, Bran, Embden ; Egedius, Ostend;
Nestor, Honduras ; Mary Howland, Weare, St. John's,
Brunswick ; Florence, Natchez ; Cassander, Greg, New Or-
leans ; Bornas, Taylor, New Orleans ; Arab, Marshall, New
Orleans ; Queen Adelaide, Barstow, New Orleans • Livonia,
Egypt ; Bridgetown, Sinall, St. John's, New Brunswick
Christian, Lucht, Embden ; Alice, Calcutta ; Sally, Corse,
Youghall ; Harbura, Grieves, Tralee ; Erin, Bates, Dundalk.
TELEGRAPHED.
Off Holyhead, inward bound, the Aberfoil, from Demerara;
the Brenda, from St. Domingo ; the: Isabella, from Bombay.
Off Holyhead, outward bound, the Litherland for Barbadoes.

DREADFUL HURRICANE AT MADRAS.
The' following particulars are extracted from the Madras
Conservative of November 1 :
" On Saturday morning Mr. A. Taylor, the Astronomer,
from having observed the barometer to be unsteady, appre-
hended the approach of bad weather, but, unwilling to create
unnecessary alarm, did not send the warning to the master at-
tendant till the afternoon. At four P. m. the following note
was received by tho master attendant, and immediately put in
circulation among the commanders of ships:—
"' My Dear Dalrymple—The barometer has been uwiteadi
since yesterday, and has fallen rapidly during the last four
hours. I think it is very probable we shall have high wind to-
night. " Yours very sincerely,
" Madras, Oct. 29, 1836. " T. G. TAYLOR.'
" The first signal to the shipping was hoisted at 4, lb

r. M. :
" The weather is suspicious—prepare to cut or slip.'
" The moment the signal was made his Majesty's ship An..
dromache struck top gallant yards and masts. The master
attendant hating despatched a copy of Mr. Taylor's letter to
the First Lieutenant, the ship immediately got under weig'h,
and was putting to sea as Captain Chads got on board. The
other ships in the roads were the French ship Eliza, America
ship Star, English ship John William Dare, brig Agar, and
Government schooner Recovery. The schooner and John
William Dare got under weigh shortly after the Andromache.
" At midnight the weather looked very threatening,The the
surf had risen rapidly, and every indication of a gale.
master attendant made the night signal to cut or slip, accom-
panied by guns from the fort fired at short intervals. Shortly.
after midnight the French ship. Eliza and brig Agar slippen
and went to sea. At daylight it was blowing fresh in squells
from the N.N. W., with a heavy sea in the roads. The Arne'
sican ship Star still at anchor.
" The signal to slip was hoisted. Two guns fired at inter
vals from daylight to 11 A.M. when the Star slipped, and ren
out to sea in a heavy squall from the N.W. From 11 A. M. Al'
fear for the shipping in the roads had ceased, and the gale con"
Culled to increase till 5 P. M., when it blew a hurricane from
the northward.
" The effects of the hurricane on shore were tremendous.
The stoutest trees were torn up root and branch. Not a go-
den or house that we have heard of escaped damage. The
best gardens in Madras are completely destroyed. The young
plants of the Horticultural Society we regret to hear have s°'
tamed irreparable injury. The whole line of beach was retie
dercd impassable for carriages ; several panes of glass in. 4'j
lighthouse were broken, and the light of course extinguishes
during the night. The topmast of the flagstaff, which fors
unaccountable reason was not struck, was snapped short ou
the mainmast itself was not injured. Up to last night the sn;
perintendent of police had intimation of ten liTes having bee
lost. We trust this may be the outside of the fatal number.
The houses in Black Town suffered greatly, as was to be
pected."

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Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &e., may be had gratis, or will w
forwarded in answer to a post-paid application. wit

BIRTHS.
On the 23d inst., at Hersham Lodge, Surrey, Mrs. Garr -
Monk, of a daughter.
Thter'
On the 24th inst., the wife of J. Romilly, Esq., of a danf.,
On the 23d inst., Mrs. Dickenson, of Jeffery-'s
-street,-street, Kentilv.
town, of a daughter. te"
On the 18th inst., the lady of T. C. L. Meyer, Esq., of Chess
place, Kennington, of a daughter, which survived only four days.
On the 21st inst., at Springfield, Isle of Wight, the lady of Car
thin 0. St. John, 21st Madras Light Infantry, of a son.
AI/1'
On tlw 25th inst., in Upper Wimpole-street., the wife of J. •
ligan, Esq., of twinS.
On the 26th inst., in Berkeley-square, the lady of P.
jun., Esq., of a son. T

ARRIE. 80
On the 2.3 d inst., at Clem me is Danes, William Napier •Rie.r , 01,
Esq., of Aldermanbury, to Maryanne, eldest daughter of ' the
Waugh, Esq., of Essex-street, Strand, and grand-daughter of
late A. Waugh, D.D.
On the 9th inst., at St. Mary's, Kingston, near Portsmoull,t
W. Brittain, Esq., youngest son of the late Captain John
Royal Marines, to Harriett Euphemia, eldest daughter of CaptaiP
W. Thorne, late Ist Garrison Battalion.

DIED.
On the 23(1 inst., Geo. Evans Bruce, Esq., of Wilton-creice°t'
aged 80.
On the 16th inst , at Bristol, Elizabeth, relict of the late NV'
Pocock, aged 69. ea
On the 22d inst., Mr. Thos. Danks, of Hatton-garden, agh twari,
On the 23d inst., Horatio, second son of the late W. Hatton-garde
Esq., of the Inner Temple, aged 35. r. P‘
On the 25th inst., Septimus, elder of the twin sons of inn, iice
B. Sanders, of Hart-street, Bloomsbury-square, and New
licitor, aged 11 months.
On the 25th inst., in Leicester-square, Mrs. Mary g-e,,11_„• JI
On the 24th inst., at Maida-hill West, Mr. George
Edward-street, Portman-square, aged 68. FOP
On the 19th inst., aged 79, 'Mr. Thomas Lloyd, of the
011,
Tavern, Bullring, Birmingham.
Ba(Orin.i, ttolhlfeec2la26m,tih7nsiyislots.o.t,d. :ataatutehl-d.:edBil2tvi.b burgh, General Sir Writ' • 111 W
ikrielcles°r"
ilderness,
third son of Captain T. Martin, R.N , aglieedigla9tem, ojnothlrils!' ine, oife
On the 20th inst., at I3udleigh Salterton, Devon, Car°l
"'
of the Rev. Wm. Knight, Rector of Steenton, Hants' es
On the 25th inst., in Bedford-squarev, aged 87, Sir Jamconarpon
rough, late one of the Justices of his Majesty's Court of
Pleas. ..,ore •
On the 15th inst ,at Dresden, Major-Gen. Sir Lorenzo ;"
9 it.
K. C. H. and C. B. „A 8
On the 12th inst., at Newport, Isle of Wight,
Richard Bassett, banker. t
On the 25th inst., at Eltham, Alexander Robert, the no
of Captain Thackcr.

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