The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12, 1862.

THE EARL OF CARLISLE AND SIR
ROBERT PEEL.

The Lord Mayor of Dublin gave a grand enter-
tainment at the Mansion-house, in celebration of the
majority of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales,
on Monday. Above 100 guests were invited. The
Oak-room was elegantly and appropriately laid out
for the occasion. Amongst the distinguished guests
were the Lord Lieutenant and the Chief Secretary
for Ireland.

His Excellency the LORD LIEUTENANT, in re-
sponding to the toast of his health, said—You, my
Lord Mayor, have assembled this distinguished com-
pany on a most auspicious day. (Hear, hear.) We
are glad to celebrate together with you the majority
of the Prince—the hope of the realm—the first of
our fellow •subjects. We all hope that the day may
be far distant when he will rise to a still higher po-
sition ; but we all hope that this day will come.
And while the portion of us who, like me, are silver
headed, are now ready to hail the arrival on the
shores of these islands of a most fair and accom-
plished princess, we trust that those who come after
us will see, not only in the play of " Hamlet," but
upon the throne of the United Kingdom, another
" beauteous Majesty of Denmark." (Applause.) I
cannot either forget, with reference to his Royal
Highness, that I had the high satisfaction last year
of bringing him into this hospitable mansion, where
he thoroughly enjoyed the varied attractions of the
evening. I also call this an auspicious day on another
account, as it has witnessed the inauguration of an
undertaking designed, I know, and calculated, I be-
lieve, to give to the inhabitants of this crowded and
populous metropolis a greater command over the
means of health and cleanliness. (Hear.) I how-
ever, happily for you and myself, have already had
the opportunity of saying on this subject, in the
course of the day, as much as I could wish, parti-
cularly as during the reign of your lordship, as well
as that of your predecessors, it had been the habit
to indulge in a milder beverage than water.
All things, however, have their proper place, and I
will conclude with a hearty wish that whilst a sup-
ply of pure and fresh water may ever abound in the
houses and streets, and the confines of Dublin, the
generous wine cup may never be dry in the hospit-
able mansion of the Lord Mayor. (Hear, and loud
applause.)
Sir R. PEEL, Bart., M.P., in responding to the

toast of his health, said—l am very much obliged to
you, my Lord Mayor and gentlemen, for drinking
my health. I feel more than flattered by the very
unexpected complimentary allusion which the Lord
Mayor has been kind enough to make with respect
to the connexion I have with this country through
my birth. I don't know that I can in any way im-
prove the position I hold in this country otherwise
than, as it has been—and of course ever shall be_
by my most earnest desire, acting under the instruc-
tions of the Viceroy, so to follow that just, impartial,
and enlightened policy which will best promote the
interests of the country. As I have been called on
to say a few words, I am glad of the opportunity,
which this occasion supplies to me, of assuring you
of what has been said by the Viceroy, with respect

to the immediate occasion which has called us to-
gether this evening at the hospitable board of the
Lord Mayor—that is, that I trust, in common with
all this company, that the prince, to whom allusion
has been made, may earn for himself that stamp of
merit which certainly was his father's true source
of honour. (Hear, hear.) And as the noble Vice
roy has referred to a quotation from " Hamlet," I
may be permitted to say also that I hope he may
represent in his person the realisation of that per-
fect character which has been delineated by Shak-
spere in one of his plays in the following words :
" His years are young, but his experience old;
His head unmellowed, but his judgment ripe ;
He is complete in stature and in mind,
With all good grace to grace a gentleman."
This is really a subject which very much interest us
all—ourselves, the Prince, the constitutional govern-
ment, and future conduct of the country; and we
' may, on an occasion like the present, dwell upon it
with much earnestness and delight, particularly at
a scene like the present, which represents the elite
of this metropolis of Ireland. And when we re-
collect that at this moment civic feasts are being
held in a number of places through the United

Kingdom, I for one, in common with all of you, re-
joice in the opportunity which is afforded us of
uniting our feeling with that universal sentiment
which at this moment fills every breast, I am cer-
tain, in all those companies, combining in one har-
' monious expression of good will to that Prince, who,
from this day, enters on a public life, I hope of use-
fulness, in the fairest and most auspicious way.
But while this company, and many such companies
assembled at this hour through the United King-
dom, join in giving him the expression of our hearty
good will, we unite also in the hope that he may,
by the rectitude of his principles now, and when
called upon to succeed to the throne of those realms
God grant, as the Viceroy well said, in many
years yet to come—but when he does succeed to the
throne of these realms we hope, as loyal subjects,
that he may win for himself the personal esteem
which endeared his father's character to every per-
son in the community, and which, now that his
father is gone, endears his memory to the recollec-

tion of all. (Hear, hear.) We all in this company
hope, as loyal subjects, that the Prince, while
walking in the path of virtue and moral discipline
trod by his father, may win for himself that affec-
tion and attachment which secured for our beloved
Sovereign during the latter part of her reign, the
heartfelt loyalty and devotion of a contented and
united people.

POSY-OFFICE ROBBERIES.

It is very satisfactory to find that the recent alte-
rations in the regulations of the General Post-office
relative to the registration of letters, and the re-
duction in the amount of the fee charged for regis-
tering them, has been found to work most satisfac-
torily in one respect, namely, by most materially
reducing, if not altogether annihilating, the offence
of stealing post letters containing money or valu-
ables. This crime, as the public is aware, was for-
merly carried on to a very great extent, and hardly
any session of the Central Criminal Court took
place—and the same observation applies to the
Assizes—without five or six postmen being charged
with stealing letters that were entrusted to them to
deliver, or which they purloined during the pro-
cess of sorting.

Those cases where detection took place did not
by any means represent the total extent of the
crime, as complaints were continually made to the
head office of the loss of letters containing money
and valuable property, but the circumstances were
such as to afford no clue to the detection of the
guilty party.

The cases where detection took place were always
of a very painful character, as it is known that the
Post Office authorities are very strict in making
inquiries relating to the persons whom they take
into their service; and many of the unfortunate post-
men who could not resist the temptation of purloin-
ing a letter given to them to deliver which contained
money or other valuables were persons who up to
that time had borne a most irreproachable charac-
ter ; and the sentence of penal servitude, which the
judges felt it invariably to be their duty to pass
upon them, was attended not only with ruin to
themselves, but to every one connected with them ;
and the Rev. Mr. Davis, the chaplain of Newgate,
and the other officials at that prison, have fre-
quently in their reports stated that these are the
most painful description of cases that came within
their notice. Various schemes were adopted with
a view to put a stop to the crime, but the mode that
was usually carried out was by making use of what
is called a test letter, addressed to a fictitious per-
son in the district from whence complaints of the
loss of letters containing money had been made.
The effect of this proceeding, however, was merely
to detect the guilty party ; but, although the post-
men were perfectly aware that such means were
employed to discover those who were guilty of a
breach of trust, it did not appear to have any effect
in deterring them from committing the crime, and
they trusted to the chance of being able to destroy
the letter, and get rid of the coin contained in it,
before any inquiry should be made. The crime,

therefore, instead of diminishing, was undoubtedly
on the increase. The recent regulation, however,
appears to have almost completely put a stop to the
offence, and it operates in the following manner :
—The public is aware that the fee for registering
letters containing money or valuables was formerly
one shilling, but by the new regulations that fee is
reduced to fourpence, and all persons sending
money or other property in a letter are cautioned
as to the necessity for registering it. In addi-
tion to this, the Post Office authorities have the
power in all cases where a non-registered letter evi-
dently contains coin to register it themselves, and
the party to whom it is addressed is required to pay
a double registration fee of Bd. before the letter is
delivered. It is well that the public should be
aware of this fact, as the new regulation undoubt-
edly tends greatly to the protection of property
passing through the Post-office, as, in the very few
instances where a post-office money order cannot be
obtained, a letter can always be registered, and the
temptation to dishonesty formerly afforded to the
servants of the Post-office is almost entirely abo-
lished. Persons who have been in the habit of send-
ing small sums of money in letters would do well
not to forget the effect of this alteration, as in-
etanees have occurred in which a small amount such
as a shilling, has been sent in a letter, and the Post-
office authorities, of course not being aware whether
it was a shilling or a sovereign, have themselves re-
gistered it, and the person receiving the letter has

been compelled to pay Bd. of the amount, as the
double registration fee. The effect of the new re-
gulation must, however, soon become generally
known, and there is no doubt it will be found to
work most advantageously as regards the suppres-
sion of this peculiar description of crime.

day, Wednesday, and Friday. The points from
which the wind blew were first southerly, then
northerly, and on Saturday south-west. The quan-
tity of rain was 0.69 in. ; about half an inch fell on
Wednesday. There were fogs on the last four days.
The mean of the highest temperatures of the Thames
was 50.2 deg. ; the mean of the lowest 48,5 deg,

THE MANCHESTER BANK FRAUDS.

THE MANAGER COMMITTED ON A SECOND

CHARGE.

At the Manchester Police-court yesterday, Jonah
Andrew, the manager of the City Bank, was
brought up on remand, and the evidence completed
In the case on which he has been committed for
trial, as already reported.
A witness from the Union Bank, London, proved
that the bill of Mr. Lyon, of £37 17s. 6d., had not
oven advised, and Serjeant Shanley, of the detec-
tive police, said that when he apprehended the
prisoner at the Free-trade Hall he said that the
transaction was merely a debt.

In reply to the usual caution, the prisoner said
he had no statement to make.

He was then proceeded a gHinst on a second charge
of a similar character to that of Mr. Lyons. The
prosecutor was Mr. Thomas Smith, ironmonger,
Oldham-street, who, by his salesman, paid into the
prisoner's bank £lO on the 16th ult. to meet a bill
due in London on the following day. The place of
payment was stated in the advice note to be the
Union Bank, London, and according to the evidence
of Mr. Coulson, the prisoner's clerk, the bill was
advised on the 17th ult. to the prisoner's agents,
Messrs. Spooner, Attwoods, and Co. It was by the
prisoner's request that the advising of the bill was
postponed for a day, and on the 20th Messrs.
Spooner, Attwoods, and Co., refused to honour the
prisoner's drafts.
The prisoner had nothing to say in answer to the
charge, and the Magistrates committed him for
trial, offering to accept bail, the prisoner in £6OO,
and two sureties in £3OO each.—Manchester
Guardian.