The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-13 00:00:00

Ten end a half hours, say at twenty-two miles only 230
From Preston to Edinburgh and Glasgow 180
wiles, at ten miles an hour..

180

Is eighteen hours, or twenty-eight and a half
hours in whole from London to Edinburgh or
Glasgow
Here, my Lord, is a practical statement of facts and infer-
ences, showing that the Edinburgh aad Glasgow mails, con-
veyed by only an ordinary train (for it was such I came with),
and at the usual speed mail-coaches travel, may arrive quite
easily in twenty-nine hours at most, from London to Ediu_
burgh and Glasgow—say that morning mails were to be dis-
ptched from London at ten, they would reach Edinburgh and
Glasgow at three the following afternoon.
Such mails would be of incalculable importance to the
country ; they would bring on without delay the whole cor-
respondence, which lies at present twelve hours daily in Lon-
don, and thirty-six hours once a neck; they would bring for-
ward without delay the whole foreign correspondence, which
is at present detained the same time as the correspondence
above alluded to ; besides which most important duties, they
would being forward the proceedings in Parliament, in a con,
fleeted form, twelve hours earlier than at present ; together
with the London morning newspapers, and all letters written
I,etween five of the afternoon, and nine of the following

morning.
Assuming, my Lord, that the inhabitants of Edinburgh, and
of Scotland generally, intend to insist on having day-mails,
whenever the railways alluded to are completed, and that this
is just at band, 1 beg to say that I have not a doubt of the
Post-office contriving some scheme or other to mar, if not
effectually to stop, the adoption of the proposal.
They will send the mails off too early to be useful, or too
late to be acceptable, to the great body of the people, or they
will combine them with other mails, so as to obstruct the
objects in view by those who demand them, and thus make
good their own often-repeated assertion of day-mails being of no
use to Scotland; or they will implicate the Treasury, and roll
over the blame, as usual, on those who are neither employed
in the Post-office department, nor paid for doing the duties of
it. These are my expectations; and, therefore, as an antidote
to the poison, I venture to suggest that a deputation of one or
more trustworthy persons should be sent, when the railways
arc opened throughout, to travel along with them, and mark
the time taken with and without stoppages. By this means,
the actual speed and the time occupied will be ascertained in-
disputably, and thus put to the test any difficulties the Post-
office may conjure up. It must be borne in mind that an Act
has been passed, enabling the Postmaster-General to demand
that mails shall be conveyed at the greatest speed which any
railway company sanctions. At this rate the Scotch day-
mails must be forwarded, if their adoption is to be really
useful.

The Post-office, at the bidding of Lord Mulgrave, has
supplied the north of England and all Ireland with a day-mail,
at the best rate of speed on railways and by mail-coaches ;
axd surely all Scotland will not be less successful than a single
British Peer, even although not one of her Peerage should
join the people in their just demand.
It is obvious, from Mr. Wallaoe's statement, that the Lon.
don mail may, in the course of a few weeks, be forwarded re-
gularly to Edinburgh in less that' 30 hours. The evening
mail, which leaves London at eight P.M. on Saturday, will
therefore be in Edinburgh at two, A.M., on Monday. The
Aberdeen mail might be forwarded by a stage-coach, on the
coast road, starting at four or five o'clock in the morning, and
reaching this city at four or five in the afternoon, or fourteen
hours earlier than at present. Then, again, as the London
morning mail will reach Edinburgh at three, r. at., letters and
papers will be in time enough to be forwarded by the present
Aberdeen mail-coach, and delivered here at the usual hour,
thus giving us the Parliamentary news and morning papers,
and foreign correspondence, a full day earlier than we now get
them. —Aberdeen Herald.

EARLY INTELLIGETCE (be-TIMES.)

By the packet ship Oxford, which arrived at Liverpool yes-
terday, We have received A FILE OF NEW YORK
PAPERS to the 20th ult. inclusive. As the substance of
the news contained in these papers has already appeared in
The Sun, we shall not follow the example of a morning Con•
temporary WHO DISHES UP IN A SECOND EDITION INTELLIGENCE
WHICH PREVIOUSLY APPEARED IN TWO IMPRESSIONS OF HIS OWN
COLUMN& —Sun of last Evening.
A file of New York papers camp
To Times but yesterday,
With news the same as two days past
It printed viith display ;
But still the cunning Editor,
The OLD NEWS could not smother,
Which simply proves that one old file
Imposed upon another.—Morning Post.
0- h •,;aht

n
.ie night of Thursday last the counting-house
of Mr. Edward Beck, slater, on Beck's Wharf, Islcworth,
;vas burglariously broken into, and a large iron chest, contain-
ing the books of accounts, carried off. The next morning the
iron chest was found on the banks of the river broken open,
and the account books, with the exception of a ledger, have
subsequently been recovered, having been found floating on
the Thames. What can have influenced the thieves to com-
mit the robbery is quite a mystery, it being well known that
no money was ever left in the counting-house. A reward of
twenty guineas has been offered for the apprehension of the
thieves, and a further sum of five guineas for the recovery
of the ledger, the accounts of which can, it appears, be re-
placed.
A Queen Anne's farthing, in very good preserva-
tion, was lately found by Mr. King, veterinary surgeon, of
High Ongar, whilst digging in his garden.—Essea: Herald.