The Sun.
London, England, 1836-07-14 00:00:00

POST-OFFICE.

(From the Votes of the House of Commons.)
Mr. Wallace is to move the following resolutions this
evening :
I. That the present numerous complicated Laws re-
specting Communications by Post be repealed, and replaced
by clear comprehensive Statutes.
2. That a reduction be made on the present rates
charged on letters sent by the General Post, whether Do-
mestic, Colonial, Foreign, or Private Ship Letters.
3. That the rates of Postage by the General Post be
chargeable only according to the computed distance by the
nearest carriage road between one Post Town and another.
4. That Letters from the Colonies and Dependencies of
Great Britain and Ireland, may be received free by Mem-
bers of Parliament, the same as if coming from subjects of
the King in these Countries.
5. That Postage be chargeable to Members of Parlia-
ment, by weight, on whatever that may exceed the allow-
ance of one ounce each, on the aggregate of fifteen letters,
presently allowed to be franked, namely, fifteen letters free,
if not, exceeding fifteen ounces on the whole.
6. That the terms Penny and Twopenny Posts shall
cease to be used.

7. That the term Parcel Post be substituted for those of
Penny and Twopenny.
8. That Parcel Posts shall be considered elsewhere, as
they are in London, as short distance, local Posts ; and
that Postage shall not be superadded, in future, on General
Post Letters or Newspapers, although forwarded through
the Parcel or Penny Post.
9. That Parcel Posts, similar in all respects to the pre-
sent Twopenny and Threepenny London Posts, which cover
Letters or Parcels not exceeding four ounces in weight, and
which has so long been working beneficially, for fifteen miles
in and around London, be generally established all over the
Kingdom.
10. That Parcel Post Mail Bags may be sent by Stage
Coaches, wherever this can be done better and cheaper than
by Horses, Mail Carts, or Mail Coaches.
11. That Mail Bags may be sent from the General Post
Office in London, as they are in every other town what-
ever, at any suitable hour of the day.
12. That all Mail Bags arriving early in the morning in
London, be sent forward towards their destination by ten
o'clock at latest the same day.
13. That the Stage Coaches having a Guard, may be
employed to carry Mail Bags containing General Post Let-
ters, whenever the public service will benefit thereby.
14. That the powers, duties, salaries, and emoluments of
Post Office Surveyors and Deputy Postmasters, be defined
and regulated, and published at every Post Office.
15. That Post Offices in Towns be established in conve-
nient central situations.
16. That Maps of the roads of Post communication be
published by authority, and for sale ; and Time-bills con-
nected with each locality be exhibited in every Post Office,
in some conspicuous place.
17. That a sum amounting to 800,0001., as some calcu-
late, or to nearly double that amount, according to the
computation of others, has been lost to the Nation, in con-
sequence of recklessly creating and obstinately persisting in
the maintenance of a Fleet of Post Office Steam Packets.
18. That those to whom these losses are attributable are
unworthy of public confidence.
19. That the Crown Lawyers do prosecute Defaulters
or Delinquents connected with any frauds, or other unwar-
rantable losses sustained by the Public in the Steam Packet
branch of the Post Office service ; and also, any other De-
f.telters or Delinquents in any other branch of the Post
Office Department, where losses have been unduly sus-
tained, since the consolidation of the Irish and Scotch Post
Offices with that of England.
CH

ANCERY COURT-WEDNESDAY.

WARD V. POMFRET.
This was an appeal from an order of the Vice- Chancellor
directing a second trial of an issue to ascertain whether a
certain modus with respect to the payment of vicarial tithes
had existed from time immemorial, in the parish of Tenter-
den, in the county of Kent. The appeal was opened on
Saturday by Mr. Sergeant WILDE, on the part of the de-
fendant, in whose favour the Jury on the last trial gave their
verdict.
Mr. BOTELER was also heard in support of the order of
the Vice Chancellor.
Mr. WRIGHT followed this morning on the same side,
contending that although the Jury had found in favour of
the modus, the Vicar would still be unable to recover his
tithes, because it was impossible to know what sum he
could legally claim from each individual.
Mr. KNIGHT having declined to avail himself of his right
to reply,

The Loan CHANCELLOR said that the issue, as framed,
being a part of the decree, and that decree having been
argued before the Vice-Chancellor, and re-heard by Lord
Brougham, it was not in the power of the Court to alter
it. That being so, it seemed to be quite useless to send
the matter to a new trial, as the jury had already pro-
nounced their verdict on the issue as submitted to them.
His Lordship, under these circumstances, refused the new
trial, overruling the order of the Vice-Chancellor, and di-
recting that the costs of the defendant in the hearing be-
fore his Honour should be costs in his cause.