The Sun.
London, England, 1838-03-02 00:00:00

ELECTION COMMITTEES.

(Continued from our First Edition of yesterday.)
CITY OF LONDON ELECTION COMMITTEE.
The Poll-books were received in evidence without any
dispute
M. T)I, r, I,te a Clerk to Mr. Croue'ler, ryas then called
in order to prove agency on ihe part of ti:lt gentiernr.n, for
the sitting Members. II.: was procce.;ling to prove acts done
by him, when
Mr. AUSTIN objected. Nothing had been proved to connect
Mr. Croucher with the sitting Members; therefore no acts
affecting them, done by him, could he given in evidence.
Mr. WRANGII AM was going to prove agency, by showing
the acts done by Mr. Croucher for the then candidates, and
until he had by that means proved the agency, he would nut
give in evidence any one criminal act.
The Committee-room was then cleared, and the Committee
had not decided the point when the Speaker took the Chair,
, and the Committee adjourned till to-morrow.

YOUGHAL.
The scrutiny proceeded on each side alternately until fou
o'clock, when the petitioner was in a majority of one.

TAUNTON.
The result of this day's scrutiny places the sitting Merduer
n a majority of one.

BELFAST.
At the close of the scrutiny this day, Lord Belfast was five
a head cf the petitioners.

TFIE TWOPENNY POST LETTER CARRIERS.—
On Friday a deputation of Members of Parliament, comprising
Messrs. O'Connell and Wallace, Sir G. Sinclair, Captain
Polhill, and Major Aglionby, waited upon the Lords of the
Treasury with a memorial from the Twopenny Post Letter
Carriers, complaining of the hardships imposed upon them in
consequence of the late great increase to their duties (an extra
delivery and collection every day), without an increase of
remuneration, and praying their Lordships to consider their
case, and grant them some relief. The deputation was
accompanied by some of the men, for the purpose of either
stating their grievances themselves, or rendering any required
assistance to the Gentlemen who had so kindly become their
advocates, but they were not called in. The Lords of the
Treasury present were Mr. F. Baring, Mr. Labouchere, and
Lord Melbourne. Colonel Maberly, the Secretary to the
Post-office, was also in attendance. The memorial having
been read by Mr. O'Connell, and some little conversation
relative thereto having passed, Lord Melbourne Ras pleased
to state that he would give the case his best consideration.
It is sincerely to be hoped that his Lordship will do so, and
no doubt a remedy may thee be speedily anticipated. The
case of these men is one of peculiar hardship, and not to re-
medy it is not only injustice to them, but impolitic as regards
the public. It is above twenty years since their present
salary (20s. per week) was fixed, and at that time the duties
were not one-third what they at present are ; besides, a liberal
increase of income has been granted to the officers employed
in the higher department: of the office, in some instances
amounting to more than double, and the low salaries of these
poor fellows remain entirely unchanged, at least for the better,
for additional duty creating additional responsibility and
losses, by mistakes and credit, their emoluments are even less.
There is no class of men employed by the Government who have
such arduous duties to perform, andwho get so badly paid; whilst
there is no class of men, as servants of the public, the proper
performance of whose duties involve so much the interests and
laapt,iness of the community at large. It cannot be expected
for tho paltry pittance which these men receive that their
duties can be honestly and properly performed, and, therefore,
it is impolitic not to pay them better. The names of the
above gentlemen show they have some able and influential ad-
vocates, and we trust their efforts will prove successful.
On Sunday evening, shortly before seven o'clock,
the persons traversing the streets at the western end of the
metropolis were thrown into a state of considerable excite-
ment by the appearance of a bright light in the heavens, which
was at first believed to be occasioned by some extensive, though
distant conflagration, but which was soon ascertained to have
been caused by a large fiery meteor which passed from south-
east to north-west, and was finally lost in the distance, leav-
ing behind it a long white luminous streak, extending from
point to paint. It was visible about three minutes, and hun-
dreds of persons collected at the corners of streets and in the
various squares to watch its progress.