The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-26 00:00:00

FRAN CE.

The proposition of M. Cretan, for the repeal of the
laws of proscription passed against the Bourbons,
was ultimately rejected by the Assembly by a majority
4 to 103.

of 48

lONIAN ISLANDS.
The Paints of Corfu states that on the 30th several
arrests took place at Corfu, and that after placing the
prisoners in solitary confinement their papers were
seized and underwent a severe scrutiny. The per-
sons arrested are MM. Valianos, Pietro Quartano, J.
B. Scarpa, G. Calogeras, Colonel Zatnbccari, De
Ohilippis, and Rocco Canerini.

POST-OFFICE SUNDAY LABOUR
The following reply to the memorial of the Lord's
Day Observance Society was received yesterday morn
ing:—

" General Post-office, Oct. 24, 1849.
" Sir,—l am commanded by the Postinaster.General
to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 23d
instant, and to acquaint you, in reply, that her Majesty's
Government intend to carry into execution the measure
to which you refer, as one which is calculated to lessen
Sunday labour in the Post-office service throughout the
country in general, and to afford important accommoda-
tion to the public.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your
obedient servant, " J. TILLEY, Assist. Sec.
" Joseph Wilson, Lord's-Day Observance
Society, 14, Chatham•place."
We are glad to learn that the directors of the Man-
chester Chamber of Commerce have unanimously agreed
upon the following memorial to the Lords of the Trea-
sury, in support of the changes proposed to be introduced
into the Post-office regulations, by which the amount of
Sunday labour will be so greatly diminished:—
" That your memorialists have observed with extreme
regret the mistaken zeal with which the measure of her
Majesty's Postmaster-General, with reference to the
proposed transmission of country letters through the
London Post-office, has been assailed.
"That your memorialists yield to no class of ber
Majesty's subjects in a sincere reverence for the Sunday,
and even on this ground they consider the proposed
alterations to be most laudable, in diminishing the amount
of labour now indispensable on that day.
" That your memorialists hold that the compulsory
detention, for a whole day, of letters intended for distant
parts of the country, has been the cause of much incon-
venience and loss to the manufacturing districts, and
long a subject of most just complaint.
"That without imputing motives to the objectors of
the metropolis, whose material interests in the existing
mal-administration are sufficiently obvious, your memo-
rialists beg to observe to your Lordships, that since the
establishment of the electric telegraph it is more than
ever incumbent upon the Post-office to make the pro-
posed dispatch on Sundays, inasmuch as holding a strict
monopoly of the carriage of letters, the Post-office is, in
justice, bound so to exercise its monopoly as not, by its
own act, to give a preference to one portion of her
Majesty's subjects over others quite as important and as
useful to the State, especially when the means of equal
distribution are at hand.
" That as far as this important district is concerned, it
is most grievous to know that, by the detention of
packet letters and other letters which have to pass
through London, the interests of an industrious com-
munity are made secondary to the greed of those who
are so unjustly favoured by a preferential early de-
livery of advises which, until interfered with by the
Post-office, had travelled together pari passe. Not only
may large mercantile operations be thus preferentially
assisted, but opportunities for effecting insurances on
advised cargoes may be lost, and monetary arrange-
ments of the deepest moment be most injuriously affected.
Both in a mercantile and social point of view the peace
of families may be ruined.
"Convinced that the present system of detaining letters
is, by its injustice and cruelty, a grosser infraction of the
decalogue than will be the proposed alteration, and that
the measure contemplated by her Majesty's Postmaster,
General is not only most wise and necessary, but will
actually diminish the amount of Sunday labour now re-
quired,
"Your memorialists earnestly pray that the proposed
transmission of letters for the country by the Sunday
evening's mail from London may be resolutely adhered
to."—Manchester Guardian.

CONSLCRATION OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP
OF DERRY,—On Sunday the Rev. Mr. Kelly, P.P., was
consecrated Roman Catholic Bishop of Derry, in the
room of the Right Rev. Dr. Maginn, deceased. The
Most Rev. Archbishop Machale was the consecrating
bishop. The Londonderry Journal says, " The Right
Rev. Dr. Kelly is the most youthful prelate in the Irish
Roman Catholic Church, and was not more than eighteen
months a pariah priest."