The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-23 00:00:00

SUN EXPRESS EXTRAORDINARY

SUN EXPRESS.—The spirited proprietor of The Sun has
fairly outdone all his previous wonderful achievements
the art and mystery of expressing The speech of Sig
Robert Peel (which, by the bye, was scarcely worth print-
ing), delivered at Glasgow on Friday evening (400 miles
from London), was actually received at The Sun Orrice
within twenty-eight hours after, printed, published, and re-
el:pressed to all parts of the kingdom, and being read 200
miles from town on Sunday evening !—Leicester Mercury.
We must not omit stating, that we are indebted for thc

report of this grand banquet, to the proprietor of The Sun
Newspaper, who, by an extraordinary express, was en-
abled to publish his report at half-past one o'clock on
Sunday, a copy of which he kindly forwarded to our
office, and reached us on Monday night. In expressing
our acknowledgements for this unsolicited act of kindness,
we cannot but highly commend the industry and unprece-
dented dispatch which it exhibits.. We arc also indebted

to the llforning Herald for a like favour, which did not,
however, arrive as:early as The Sun.—Carmarthen Journal.
Through the exertions of the proprietor of The Sun
Newspaper, Sir Robert Peel's speech at the grand Con-
servative dinner at Glasgow, on Friday, was published in
London at half-past seven on Sunday morning. The com-
pany did not sit down to table till five o'clock, and allow-
ing, for the time occupied in discussing the feast, in the
toasts which preceded that of their distinguished guest, the
Right Hon. Baronet's address, and the subsequent speeches
—then the copying the short-hand notes, the distance ac-
complished (400 miles in about twenty-four hours, and full
half the time in darkness)—when, we say, all these are
taken into consideration, gratification gives place to won-
der at the excellence of their arrangements, and the as-
tonishing celerity with which the task was accomplished.—
Cambrian.

THE SUN EXPRESS.—The Sun London evening paper
of Saturday, from which we have made our abstract of Sir
Robert Peel's Speech at the Glasgow dinner on Friday
evening, contained eight and a half closely printed columns
of the speeches delivered on that occasion. The proprie-
tor of that spirited Paper had his report of the speeches
sent to London by express ; and, although we have seen
on former occasions, the greatest dispatch and energy ex-
ercised by the proprietor of The Sun, yet the present in-
stance is decidedly the greatest effort he has made. It
was half-past twelve o'clock on Fiiday night before the
proceedings of the dinner terminated, and the account of
them arrived at The Sun office by half-past one o'clock on
Sunday morning—a distance of 400 miles in twenty-five
hours.-IVorth Derbyshire Chronicle.
THE LONDON NEWSPAPER PRESS.—Among all the cir-
cumstances connected with the late splendid banquet to
Sir Robert Peel in this city, few of them deserve more at-
tention than the wonderful exertions that were made by the
London Morning Papers to have a full and early report
of the proceedings at the dinner. As we formerly men-
tioned, there were about twenty gentlemen connected with

;hese papers in Glasgow at the time of the festival.

Sun used formerly to be the journal which excelled all the
others in the quickness with which it was forwarded through-
out the country every thing of public interest, but on the
present occasion that paper has been visibly eclipsed by the
Morning Herald. The dinner proceedings concluded here.
about half-past one o'clock on Saturday morning, and at
half-past eleven on Monday forenoon we received a copy of
the Morning Herald, containing six closely-printed columns
of the speeches, the report being brought down to the close.
This unprecedented dispatch has given rise to a strong sus-
picion that the report, as it occupies \just a neat page,
may have been printed in Manchester or Liverpool, a
quantity of the Heralds containing the other three pages
being sent to either of these places to be thus filled up.
This theory is corroborated by the silence of the paper in
question regarding the matter in the following publication.
Had it been a bona fide transaction, we imagine there
would have been, at the earliest opportunity, a little puffing
on the subject. The whole period occupied here is fifty-
eight hours, being fourteen miles travelling per hour, with-
out either stoppage to print or stoppage on the road. The
Sun, the Morning Advertiser, Post, Chronicle, Times, &c.,
had also most capital reports, published with great speed.
The whole of these journals are loud in their praises of the
grandeur of the banqueting-hall, the whole arrangements
(which indeed can never be too highly spoken of), and the
excellent demeanour of the immense company. Since writ-
inn. the above we have taken a look at the illorning Herald,
and can now say that the dinner page in that journal
alluded to has been printed by itself, wherever it was done.
—Glasgow Herald.
We were indebted to the proprietor of The Sun Even-
ing Paper, for the first report of Sir Robert Peel's speech
at the Glasgow Dinner, which reached this town on Mon-
day evening, having been forwarded express out of London
on Sunday. This is another instance of the extraordinary
dispatch for which the spirited Proprietor of The Sun is
celebrated. But for the bad condition of the roads they
would have accomplished their object many hours earlier.—
Dcvonport Telegraph.
EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS.—The spirited exertions of
the proprietor of The Sun, to obtain and circulate the
earliest intelligence of public events, have won universal
admiration. On Friday eveningc, Sir Robert Peel and others
addressed the guests at the dinner in Glasgow, and by
Monday evening, six o'clock, we received a copy, and read
their speeches in Devonport, they having had, in that time,
to be fairly written out from the reporter's notes, trans-
mitted to London, composed, printed, and distributed
through the Post-offices, and by other conveyances.—De-
vonport Independent.
The rider who was sent off express by Paton & Co.,
Black Bull Inn, with the report of the Peel Banquet, for
The Sun Newspaper, reached Beatock Inn—a distance
of 56 miles from Glasgow—in the short period of three
hours and 17 minutes. Had it not been that he was
detained at a toll-bar, he would have reached his destina-

tion in less time.—Ayr Advertiser.
SIR R. PEEL AT GLASGOW.—Among the numerous
public occurrences that have recently taken place, none
has excited so much general interest as those of the instal-
lation of Sir Robert Peel as Rector of the University of
Glasgow, which took place in that city on the llth instant,
and the grand banquet on the 13th. Our readers may
form some idea of the intense interest of the latter, when
we inform them that an account of the dinner, with Sir
Robert Peel's speech on the occasion, was published in the
Morning Herald, London paper of Saturday, an instance
of expedition unprecedented in the annals of the press.
They were also published in an edition of The San on the
following morning ; and those papers were kindly forwarded
to our office. We have not space this day for Sir Robert's
Speech, but shall give it in our next.—Enniskillen C'kro-
nide, and Erne Packet.

It is not a minor proof of the interest attached to the
exposition of Conservative principles by its leader, that The
Sun, a Liberal paper, made the extraordinary effort to sup-
ply the metropolis with a copy of the speech, within forty-
eight hours of its delivery, expressing it a distance of 400
miles.—Hampshire Advertiser.
TrIE SUN EXPRESS.—ThrOUgh the spirited exertions of
Murdo Young, Esq., we were favoured, on Monday last
with an expressed copy-of The Sun, containing ten columns
of the report of the dinner given to Sir Robert Peel, at
Glasgow, on the previous Friday evening. This wonderful
expedition in expressing, reporting, printing, publishing, and
re-expressing, is witliout parallel or example in thehistory of
newspaper management ; and we hope the proprietor will
meet with the reward which is justly due to his indefatiga-
ble exertions.—Northamphm Chronicle.