The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-27 00:00:00

WELSH AND IRISH MAILS.

A deputation appointed by the Chamber of Commerce,
consisting of Messrs. Samuel James, Charles Bowles Fripp,
and J. Vining, being requested to proceed to London with
the memorial from the Chamber of Commerce and the
Merchants, numerously signed in the Commercial Rooms,
pointing out the injury and inconvenience sustained by Bris-
tol from the irregularity in the arrival of the Welsh and
Irish mails, had an interview, on Thursday last, at the
General Post-office, with Colonel Maberley, the Secretary,
Lord Lichfield, the Postmaster-General, being too ill to be
seen. They were immediately informed by Colonel Ma-
berley, it was a case for which relief could not be granted,
as the regulations that caused the inconvenience com-
plained of, had been adopted on the recommendation
of the Commissioners of Post Office Inquiry, and this
was stated to be not only the opinion of himself, but
that of Mr. Lewis, and other practical officers of the
Post Office establishment. The deputation pressed to
be heard in answer to their objections, and another
interview was appointed for the following day, with
Colonel Maberley and Mr. Lewis conjointly. In the
interim, the deputation determined to apply to the Com-
missioners of the Post-office Inquiry, who, they understood,
were still sitting, and having obtained a letter of introduc-
tion from Mr. Matthias Attwood, they drew up a short
memorial, embracing the substance of that which they had
delivered to the Postmaster-General, and proceeded with
it to the Secretary of the Commissioners, Mr. Gardner, by
whose means they obtained an appointment to meet two of
the Commissioners then in town, Lord Duncannon and
the Hon. Mr. Labouchere, on the following morning.
Having again attended on Colonel Maberley with Mr.
Lewis, as appointed, who gave a fair and candid hearing to
all that the deputation could urge, the latter admitted the
hardship of the case as regarded Bristol, but said it was im-
possible to make the alteration required by the deputation
(that is, to allow three hours' time in Bristol between the
arrival of the Welsh mail and the departure of the London
mail), consistently with the general interests of other
places, more particularly as alterations were contemplated
and in progress as would allow of only twelve hours for the
voyage between Waterford and Hobb's Point, and the de-
parture of the mail from thence to Bristol was intended to
be fixed at two o'clock a.m., instead of one, as at present.
It was, however, promised by Colonel Maberley and Mr.
Lewis, to the deputation, that all their statements should
be submitted to the Postmaster-General, on his recovery,
and receive further consideration. The deputation then
attended on the Commissioners, agreeably to the appoint-
ment made for them by Mr. Gardner, when both Lord
Duncannon and Mr. Labouchere (Mr. Lewis being present)
admitted that a case was made out of extreme hardship
inflicted on Bristol, and thought, if it resulted from mea-
sures recommended by them, that it was within their pro.
vince to entertain the prayer of the memorial, and having
heard the various statements and claims made by the depu-
tation, as well as the objections urged by Mr. Lewis, the
deputation then retired, with a promise that the fullest con-
sideration would be given to the subject, both by the Com-
missioners and the authorities at the Post-office ; and that
a communication should be shortly made, addre'ssed to the
President of the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Lewis also
said, that on the recovery of the Postmaster-General, he
should recommend an immediate alteration, that the Welsh
mail may arrive in Bristol about five o'clock, P. 31., and that
the letters should be delivered at the Post-office window
immediately after its arrival, notwithstanding an extra ex-
pense would be incurred thereby. The deputation is strongly
impressed with the conviction that further relief may be
obtained for Bristol by watching the arrangements now in-
tended, in reference to the Irish mail, and their effect on the
interests of Bristol.—Bristol Mercury.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

SOUTH AMERICA.

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF BOLIVIA TO THE AS-

SEMBLY OF THE NORTHERN STATE OF PERU.

Gentlemen Deputies—After completing the work of pa-
cification of Peru, to which I was bound by a solemn treaty
invested with all the formalities which public right has
sanctioned, and by the peremptory and official call of tho
legitimate chief* of the Peruvian nation, it remained for
me to fulfil an engagement based on the same foundations,
emanating from the same principles, and arising out of the
same circumstances. Such was the national will, expressed
through its legal organs, in the south and in the north
of Peru.

In the assembly of the south this will has been mani-
fested freely and solemnly. That assembly has determined
to shape its own territory into a form long and loudly de:
manded by its industrial and political necessities. It was
even more imperiously and irresistibly demanded by the ne
cessity of controlling anarchy, and circumscribing the sphere
of its destructive action, by multiplying the barriers designed
to compress its development. On this basis was formed
the outline of a political combination, new in the annals
of the southern sphere—a combination that presents to the
world a nation composed of three states, confederated in
perfect homogeneity, each respectively endowed with the
vital principle required for its existence and preservation,
and all bound together by a tie of brotherhood that insures
them against intestine disorder, and shelters them from as-
sailants without.

A few months have sufficed to evince incontestably the
correctness of the judgment pronounced at Sicuani. The
state of South Peru has carried its views into effect, and
the bases that sustain the system there proclaimed are de-
signed to support the fortunes and the dignity of a nation
that may fraternize on terms of equality with any on this
continent.

Representatives of the North,—A similar view presents
itself for your decision ; I am here to afford the stipulated
aid—declare your resolution, and fear not frustration from
disobedience, counteraction from force, or evasion from in-
trigue. Declare your resolution, and the heroism that
triumphed over perfidy at Yanacocho, at Socabaya, over
rebellion, shall vindicate your will, as it vindicated in those
glorious days the cause of law and of justice.
Gentlemen Deputies The illustrious magistrate at
whose call you are assembled cherishes in his heart the
sentiments I have expressed to you here. For the impor-
tant period of his government was reserved the transition
from disorder to regularity—from anarchy to the rule of
law—from the reign of violence to the triumph of justice.
Your duty it is to consolidate the elements of this fortunate
change—mine to assure its objects. Let us with equal
fidelity discharge those high obligations.

*Orbegoso.

The Earl of Normanton and a party have been enjoy-
ing the diversion of a week's battue on his Lordship's well-
stocked preserves at Sowerby Park, in the New Forest.
HANIBURGII, DEC. 19.—1 n the night of the 12th
of November several shocks of an earthquake were felt in
the town of Zajisda, in Croatia, and the most solid chim-
nies of the manor-house fell, persons were thrown out of
their beds, tie. These shocks, though with less violence,
and at intervals of ten or twelve hours, continued to the
16th of November, on which day there was a shock, ac-
companied by a loud subterranoous noise. From the Ist
to the 16th there was an uninterrupted calm and thick
fogs. The inhabitants had scarcely recovered from the
fright, when, at four in the morning of the 18th of No-
vember, the shocks returned, and continued till ten o'clock
with such violence, that the remainder of the chimnies fell.
Hereupon a violent storm arose, with heavy snow, which
continued till eleven at night. When the storm and the
snow ceased another slight shock was felt. On the 21st
the sky was quite clear, and the inhabitants began to breathe
once more at their ease, thinking the danger was over ; but
this confidence was of short duration. From the 22d, in
the morning at eleven, and in the afternoon between three
and four, several other,but slight shock, were felt, and ap-
peared general. In the forest deep clefts in the earth have
been found.—Hcpnburgh Papers, Dec. 20.
On Tuesday the attention of the police was called
to a case which is likely to involve serious consequences. A
woman residing in Craig's Close, High-street, was found in
her house with a dreadful gash on the back part of her
head, from which the blood flowed with great profusion ;
and on the floor were found a pair of tongs, with which the
wound seemed to have been inflicted, as the upper part of
them was covered with blood and hair. The poor woman
is still alive, but in such a state as leaves little hope of her
recovery. The husband has been taken into custody on
suspicion.—Edinburgh Chronicle.