The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-07 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—The "Post Office Directory " states that news-
papers go free by mail-steamer, and are subject to a
charge of id. per private ship. What does this mean ?
The mail steamers go only at intervals of two months.
The Sun is published daily. If I post your paper regu-
larly, will those only go free that are posted just before
the mail-steamer starts, and that are not more than a
week old ? Your answer will much oblige me and many
others who, having friends in Australia, desire to forward
them, regularly, news from home. I have in vain
sought the information I require at various post-offices,
both in town and its environs. I have received contra-
dictory answers from various postmasters, and some
have admitted their inability to answer the question ;
other Wise I would not trouble you. It, however, con-
cerns you and the press generally, even more than an
individual.—l am, &c.,

A SUBSCRIBER.

[Our correspondent had better apply to the General
Post-office, and he will receive a satisfactory answer.
Our impression is, that all papers posted within seven
days will go free. The chief misfortune is, that the news
becomes rather stale, the remedy for which must to be
to send a larger quantity the week before the packet is
appointed to sail. The object of the Post-office regula-
tion seems to be to prevent papers that have been read
over and over again to be sent 'to the colonies with all
their rough usage, and so encumber the mails.—En.
SUN.]

MELANCHOLY ACClDENT.—Yesterday Mr. W. Payne
held an inquiry in the board-room of the workhouse of
St. George's, Mint-street, Borough, into the death of
Meshach Turner, aged 16 years, which took place under
the following extraordinary and painful circumstances:—
Joseph* Hewitt deposed that he worked in the pin factory,
Borough-road, where the deceased was employed. ,On
Tuesday afternoon, about half-past five o'clock, deceased
removed
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t whilstth hbe
eer
was in the callender-room of the first floor. A man named
Alwinkle was about to fix an oil-can under the bearing
of the shaft of the mill gear, which was a horizontal shaft.
Deceased was to hold a lamp, and a ladder was placed
e cutry
between the shaft and the partition. Deceased went up
the ladder, but was not told to do so. As he got up the
gib-end
in,
hnnrdeat
machinerynht
hdateacdbo vrdsp yel
de
was
statahhslewe
Hospital, where it was discovered that
caught his neckerchief and turned him completely over,
and he fell on his head. Witness picked him up, and
Thaudczyaeoela'rslde.shaft was about ten feet from the floor.
found that he had sustained a frightful gash in his throat.
radseyhmecafts
Deceased had been two years in the esta-
blishment, bDI
ieschema Deceased's
bnue
tc neck
onlyw a:e
ight broken,
monthsand hisin throatthe
lmachinery
a wasehi
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rAithnheemodmwu workhouse.oogoa
svc
thtei odocibrnyut w.oi
at aeGrsD
de-
partment as an engineer's labourer. The jury
a verdict of accidental death. returned

BARON WARD.—Letters from Vienna of the 2nd,
state that our able and fortunate countryman, Baron
Ward, first minister of the Duke of Parma, was at that
date dangerously ill, and had so been for several days.