The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-15 00:00:00

SPORTING

T ATI ERS.V.LL' S-Til L RSDA.Y.
The " sayings and d(fings" this afternoon were so unim-
portant that we shall, make no apology for dismissing them in
a few words. Ward* the Angelica colt, and Tuley Ishmael
were in the same positions as before—neither was backed out-
right. Launcelot, whose price we quoted ork.-111okiiiiay with
sotue hesitation, is a better favourite than we'iniagined; 18 to
I was the highest price offered, and 20 to 1 would have been
taken ; Glenorchy dropped a point or two ; 40 to I was laid
agst Wild Duck colt, and 1,000 to 20 agst Grey Milton (the
backer would have gone on); 40 to I was offered agst Scott's
Lot ' • 8. to 1 agst illuley Ishmael and Lanneelot, and 340 to srj
agst Wardan, St. Andrew, and Brother to Euclid.

NEWMARKET NEW COURSING MEETIN G.
Wednesday—at Allington Hill,
The Allington Hill Stakes.—Nlr, Saberton's S,aqui beat Mr.
Nash's Acid, Mr. Dunn's Betsy beat Mr. iyron's Faustina
be , Mr. Dobede's Darling beat Mr. Gillett's inHgeecru
Hecuba
, ra. ppt aoi Daintree's Keepsake beat Mr. Hark cl2n
bede's Dewberry neat Mr. Inskip's T 301, Mr. Inskip's Idol beat
Captain Daintree's Kitty Cle:er, Mr. Viran's Verbina beat
Mr. Finch's Garland, and, Mr. Edward's Agnes Sorel beat
Mr. bryant's EtTie, De^,Ais.
The Cup.--Mr. Vipan's Victory beat Mr. Nash's Cruis-
keen, Mr, Moody's Rebecca beat Mr. Thorp's Nimble, Mr.
Finch's Graceful beat Captain Daintree's Kitty Fisher, Mr.
Edwards's Albert beat Mr. Inskip's Index, Mr. Saberton's Se-
lint beat Mr. Dobede's Damon, Mr. Bryant's Euphrates beat
Mr, King's Rasper, Mr. Inskip's Ickwell beat Mr. Dunn's
Blucher, and Mr. Gillett's Greenacre beat Mr. Tyson's Farmer.
The Chippenham Stakes.--111r. Dobede's Duncan beat Mr.
Finch's Gallivant, Mr. Saberton's Stoic beat Mr. Gillett'a
Giles, Mr. Vipan's Vincent beat Mr. Moody's Rupert, Mr,
Nash's Cedric beat Captain Daintree's Kisel, Mr. Inskip's In-
truder beat Mr. King's Red Hever, Mr. Tyson's Falcon beat
Captain Daintree's King Pippin, Mr. Dobede's Dunallan beat
Mr. Harlock's Hector, and Mr. Edwards's Assassin neat Mr.
Dunn's Barwell.

EVENING EDITION.

THE N jam. POSTAGE.

1 (We republish this important Document, for
more general information.)
We have great pleasure in laying before our
readers the first important step towards carrying
(
into execution the plan for a Uniform Penny Pos-
tage. In order to familiarize the pereono engaged
at the Post-office and the public with the new ar-
rangements for charging by weight, that plan is to
take effect on the sth of December. At the same time
the public will have the benefit of a reduction of
all rates above 4d., to that sum, the reason for not
reducing it at once to ld., being to avoid encum-
bering the new arrangement with the great influx of
letters which might then be expected. The Post-
office, it will be seen will, after the sth of Decem-
ber, carry packages of the weight of 11b. on paying a
proportionate postage. The inhabitants of the
London district will be immediately gratified
by a penny pre-payment postage, which will
serve gradually to introduce the uniform penny rate
over the whole empire. For this attention to
the public wants the Ministers deserve
the nation's gratitude and best thanks ; what
their opponents would have done were they in office
may be known from the pages of the Quarterly
Review and the Tory journals, several of which
still daily labour to prove that the public ought not
.to have a cheap and uniform postage. Here is the
TREASURY MINUTE,
DATED NOV. 12, 1839.
M Lords read the Act 2 and 3 Victoria, cap.
1 52, for the further Regulation of the Duties on
Postage lentil the sth October, 1840.
Since the prorogation of Parliament my Lords
have turned ther unremitting attention to the mea-
sures necessary for carrying into effect the intention
of the Legislature.
The power with which this Board are invested
by the Act were recommended to Parliament, not
lonly for the purpose of enabling my Lords to adopt
1 such mode of payment as might on consideration
appear the most advisable, but also to enable my
Lords to carry into practical effect this great' altera-
tion in the manner which might be least liable to
derange the regularity and the dispatch of the cor-
' respondence of the country as now executed by the
Post Office.
My Lords have always been aware that the con-
temporaneous adoption of charging letters by weight
and the reduction of postage to an uniform rate of
' one penny would be attended with much practical
difficulty. The time occupied now at the large
1 offices, and at the forward offices, in charging and
sorting the letters, has been reduced for the public
convenience to as narrow limits as possible.
To alter the mode of charge from that to
which the officers of the Post Office have been
long accustomed, must of itself for a time
he accompanied with some inconvenience, and my
Lords apprehend it would be imprudent to increase
that difficulty by adding at the same moment so
large a number of letters as must naturally arise
from the immediate reduction to the penny rate.
My Lords fear, that for a time at least, great
irregularities would prevail, and much public incon-
venience result. However satisfactory, therefore,
and however desirable in many points of view,
it might be, to carry into execution cotem-
poraneously the complete plan, their Lordships
upon a full consideration have come to the conclu-
sion that, by adopting some measure,
and bringing into operation the mode of charging
the letters by weight, previous to the entire reduc-
tion of the rate of postage, their Lordships will not
only avoid the risk to which the other course is lia-
ble, but materially facilitate the introduction of the
remaining parts of the plan.
With these opinions their Lordships have, in
communication with the authorities of the Post
Office, turned their attention to the framing such
regulations as may introduce, with as little delay
as possible, the charge by weight. Their Lord-
ships propose to accompany this arrangement with
such reduction of postage as will be a material
relief to the public and not interfere with the pro-
per discharge of the duties of the officers of the
Post Office, as at present arranged.
By the regulations which, in conjunction with thc
Post Office, have been matured, and which this
Board propose to sanction, my Lords apprehend
material advantages will be secured. A consider-
able relief will be given to the public, as regards
the charge of letters. One of the great departmental
difficulties in introducing the penny rate will be re-
moved, and such information be obtained as will
enable my Lords to adopt with more security, and
consequently at an earlier period, the remaining
part of the system.
In giving their sanction to the proposed arrange-
ment, my Lords consider it as a temporary measure
only, and as a step to the introduction of the uni-
form penny charge ; and their Lordships will con-
tinue their anxious efforts to give effect to the whole
of the intentions of the Legislature with as little
delay as is consistent with the due consideration o
the public convenience.
Their Lordships are pleased to direct that al
letters posted on or after the sth of December nex
shall be subject to the following regulations.
General Post Letters shall be charged by weigh
as follows :-
1. Letters not exceeding i oz. one Postage.
do. . . 1 do. 2 Postages.
do. ...
... 2 do. 4 do.
do. ...

and so on, adding 2 Postages for every oz. up
to 16 ozs., beyond which no packets subject to
postage shall be received.
2. All single postage rates between places within
the United Kingdom, which now exceed 4d.,
shall be reduced to that sum. Inferior rates to
remain undisturbed, but the letters to be charged
by weight. Additional charges to which Gene-
ral Post letters are now liable, if posted, or de-
livered beyond the limits of the General Post
free delivery, as also the additional halfpenny
on Scotch Letters, and the additional penny for
passing the Menai and Conway Bridges to cease.
S. All Letters and Packets exceeding the weight
of one ounce to be pre-paid, and delivered in at
the windows ; if not so pre-paid and delivered,
to be charged with Postage.
Foreign Letters and Packet Letters will be
charged according to the preceding scale of weight.
Letters to and from the British West Indies, to
be charged one shilling per single rate, the same
charge to attach to letters from and to Gibraltar
Malta, and the lonian Isles, conveyed by packets
and not transmitted through France. My Lords
v'.serve for future consideration, the whole ques-
ticol P Übe rates on Foreign letters, as their Lord-
ships consider that it will be a proper subject for
communication with Foreign Powers, in the hope
that such Foreign Powers may be induced to maße
a corresponding reduction in their charges on lettem
to and from this country.
All ship letters betw. een parts of the United
Kingdom, including the Channel Islands and the
Isle of Man, to be e
chargedon
by weight according to
the rates char,eabl
n inland letters.
Other ship letters to be charged by weight ac-
cording to the foregoing scale, the single postage
rate remaining as at -
present, and the inland rate,
being regulated as for inland Ietters.TD,;ILNivCELUDING
LONDON DISTRICT PoS
SECOND AND THIRD
half an ounce
p
1. All letters not exceeding
vided the postage be pre-paid, to be
charged ornoe-
penny.
2. The twopenny charge on General pou letters
delivered in the London district to cease.
3. No further alteration to be made in the
charges levyable in the London District Post.
My Lords have no intention by the present ar-
rangement to make any alteration with respect to
newspapers, franked letters, or Parliamentary pa.
pers, which will still continue to enjoy the same
privileges, and be subject co the same charges as
at present.
Transmit copy of this minute officially to the
Postmaster-General, and desire his Lordship will
give the necessary instructions to his officers to
carry the directions of my Lords into effect.
Desire also that he will direct the Solicitor of
the Post Office to prepare a draft of a warrant, ill
conformity with the provisions of the Postage Acts,
to be signed by my Lords, and inserted in the
Gazette.

I LAW INTELLIGENCE.

ROLLS' COURT, Nor. 14.
NELSON V. BRIDGE/ AND ANOTHER.
In this case the defendant Bridges was the owner of
a quarry. The plaintiff Nelson was a stone quarrier,
and before the institution of these proceedings, Bridges
granted a license to Nelson to work it. Nelson took
possession, and was proceeding in his work. In that
state of things he was turned out of possession by
Bridges, who granted a license to the defendant Wood-
head to quarry the same stone. This bill was then filed
by Nelson for the specified performance of the agree-
ment, and to stay the proceedings in an action which
had been brought to recover possession. An answer
was put in, stating a case which precluded the
pending esu action,
iin
equity,
plaintiff from applying for an injunction to stay
the proceedings in the actio n.
there-
fore, proceeded ; andtheTh it
possession was recovered. When the Equity suit was
brought to a hearing, the Court declared that the plain-
tiff was entitled to a specific performance of the agree-
ment. In the meantime, the stone which was the sub-
ject of the agreement, and the benefit of which the
plaintiff was to have, had been subtracted and actually
taken away by the defendant Woodhead. That fact,
however, was not made to appear at the hearing, and
therefore a bill was filed to have compensation given to
the plaintiff.
Mr. PEMBERTON and Mr. ELMSLEY appeared for the
plaintiff.
Mr. ...RICHARDS and Mr. LOFTUS WIGRAM for the
defendant.

The Mama of the ROLLS was clearly of opinion
the plaintiff was entitled to relief. The form of giving
that relief was certainly a matter of very serious
consideration. He thought the amount of what was
due to the plaintiff ought to be ascertained by an action.
Indeed, he did not well see how it could be ascertained
in any other way. But the quarry was not worked in
such a way as to make the most of it, for Bridges enter-
taining a feeling that it was doubtful whether he had a
right to give Woodhead a license, discouraged Wood-
head from working, and he therefore only took that
which it was most convenient to take. The action
would, therefore, be to recover, not the amount of pro-
fits, but the amount of loss the plaintiff had sustained.
His Lordship thought the proper mode of assessing the
damages would be to require the defendant to admit
such facts as necessary to enable the plaintiff to bring an
action quantum damnificavit. He trusted, however,
that some arrangement would be made by which further
litigation would be unnecessary, as it was clear the
plaintiff had sustained some loss.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nor 14.
(Sittings in Banco.)
APPOINTMENT OF CHAPLAINS.—THE POOR-LAW COM-
MISSIONERS V. THE GUARDIANS OF THE ERAINTREE
UNION.
In this case a rule had been granted calling on the
Guardians of the Braintree Union to show cause why a
writ of mandamus should not be directed to them, to
obey three orders of the Poor-law Commissioners, dated
the 2d and 21st of August, and the 19th of September,
for appointing a Chaplain to the Union and reporting
thereon to the Commissioners.
Mr. KELLY now showed cause against the rule, and
was heard at some length.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL was about to argue in sup-
port of the rule, when
Lord DENMAN said the matter was of such import-
ance that the rule had better be made absolute, when a
return might be made, and it could be fully discussed.
THE QUEEN V. THOMAS HARVEY.
In this case a rule had been granted calling upon Mr.
Harvey to show by what authority he exercised the
office of Crown Counsellor of Liverpool.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL and Mr. WIGHTMAN
showed cause against the rule.
After Sir F. POLLOCK (with whom was Sir W. FOL-
LETT) bad been heard in support of the rule,
The COURT made it absolute.

BAIL COURI, Nor. 14.
(Before Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE.)

THE QUEEN V. APPLETON.

Mr. ADDISON inquired if his Lordship had made up
his mind in this case, which was an application for a
writ of certiorari to bring up the proceedings of an in-
quisition for the purpose of their being quashed.
His LORDSHIP thought an excessive deodand was not
a sufficient ground for quashing an inquisition. If there
W 23 anything to complain of on that ground, the proper
course would be to apply to the Court of Exchequer.
It was the duty of Canners in all cases where deodands
were levied, to return the inquisition into the Exchequer
within 14 days, and process thereupon issued upon the
first seal day after the following term ; most probably in
the present case the return bad been made to the Court
of Exchequer, and if so, process would issue soon after
the term. ruis Court could not direct a Coroner's in-
quil.ition to be quashed except where there was a defect
upon the face of it.
Mr. ADDISON said that in the case of the Hull
steamer Victoria, which was at this moment under
judgment in the other Court, a writ of certiorari was
granted on the affidavit that the defendants had not
bad the opportunity of seeing the inquisition, or taking
any objection to it, and on a subsequent view of it, the
objections were taken which were now under considera-
tion. He (Mr. A.) had no doubt there were many de-
fects in the present inquisition, but he was, of course,
unable to point them out.
His LORDSHIP said that mere surmise that there
were defects in an inquisitioa was not a sufficient
ground for the Court to interfere. The case had better
stand over until the other should be disposed of.