The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-20 00:00:00

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TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Dili " Factor" state when the report of the case
"'right v. Robinson appeared, and what particulars he
wants/

MAP OF

AT WAR WITH CHINA—WHERE
I'S CHINA ? VERY FEW CAN TELL.
Tlte Sun Newspaper will soon answer the question
11 publishing a Beautiful, Large, and Highly
Correct MAP of CHINA, with a Complete
History of that Extensive Empire, and its
Singular People.
Tfl
c. MAP will nearly occupy a page of The Sun.
It iS got up under the special Superintendence of
,the celebrated Mr. JAMES WYLD, Geographer
her MAJESTY the QUEEN. It comprehends
• also a large portion of India, from the Mouths of
the Ganges—the Islands in the Bay of Bengal—
nirtnall—Assam—Thibet Nepaul —Cochin
Chi"--Canton, and the immense Islands and
Says along the coast of China to PEKIN,
situated One Hundred and Twenty Miles inland
Thfr°lll the confines of the Yellow Sea.
e next News from China is expected to be ex-
eeedingly interesting and decisive. The Island
. .°f CHUSAN, the first point of attack by the
Expedition, commands the great Bay of Nankin,
ficnil which the Imperial Canal communicates
with Pekin, the Capital of the Empire. Chusan
.18 about half way between Canton and Pekin.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1840.
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80 71 •
14 " Mal* letters reach us complaining of the de-
•, .i° delivering letters, that we earnestly and
eeo
-y request the attention of the Post-office
hi4ltherities to the subject. If they do not wish to
t4g discredit on the Penny postage scheme they
't devise some better plans of sorting, and more
4144,4elivery of the letters, than those now in use.
ttch London by six o'clock in the morn-
eieg: 544 are not delivered till half-past nine, ten,
' Or in the outskirts nearly twelve o'clock. A
Vllii.,:itt-dttlY takes place in delivering the letters
tie.seo• reach
ek London by the day mails, about one
' and which are not distributed so as to enable
le tn
the
l e answer them•by the out-going mails of
te'La ute evening. Great complaints, too, continue
Ikea 144 de of the early hour at which the Post-
letierac,'Ees) and of the want of facility of sending,
lieititettat a later hour by only one place being ap-
greet t 4 receive them. All these are felt to be
o,Tectlveoiences by the public, which the
f tt
authorities, for the sake of the revenue
'4.exin/'°'t-efice, ought to remedy. It is quite
'f the 4it in Political science that to spare the time
%kietPublie is to increase the wealth of an active
tefo arid the revenue of the State.
der' er ite the late great augmentation in the num-
e'llli:tters, caused by the reduction of postage,
*ere -1"18 of tardy delivery in the metropolis
rot) moron and justified. Since then the ar-
ivety--te that were to have facilitated the de-
mode-
moletters have either not been brought
arse' or they have failed in their object.
cif'P tOO much unacquainted with the details
a°yil:t-Office management to venture to suggest
eirel4lll4°veinent, but we think we can point out the
!tanee which is the main cause of the delay
mtolense population congregated in the Post-
ea di
n@rstrict of the metropolis. It is nearly as
leou
vein as the whole population of Lancashire,
titng the large towns of Manchester and
e4tee.,im°l-. The endless delay which would be
tip ett were all the letters for Manchester and
tort 11M°I, and the whole of Lancashire to be
N on their arrival at Manchester instead of
ig Sent down in bags for Manchester, Salford,
tl.'erpee!, Bury, al d every. other town and village,
tlits out one great cause of the delay in distributing
tittrs on their arrival in London. They are all
144:ied to the General Past-office from all parts,
i " for . all parts of the metropolis, and there
4ttdto be distributed. Salford is as close to
he. •
tkiie ,rmster as the Borough is to the City. To
C 114,, another instance, Stroud, Rochester, and
it 'k
141.11, are one continuous town ; but there
the Pls.3t•office in each, a mail bag for each, and all
lloitetters for the continuous train are not shot
late rgne heap at Rochester. The plan there-
kU ehd ing all the letters directed for a million
44'1 fitik4alf of people, to one general office, so diffe-
.oes 41 the practice adopted in other cases, is
,
kid
i!! the main cause of the delay in sorting
tLlkheetZetin them.
or this could be obviated or not, by dividing
htivi Metro into ten or twenty districts, and
Mg
44ttjec local post-office in each,
tilt lb 4 krkew making those
is fAlicei Courts
n, as was. done a day or two ago of
districts by the Gazette, and so
the otihmg all
-It leg persons to which they must direct
'‘'loCry
piterlli and having the mail bags made up in
tAt rt of the country for each of those districts,
44 competent to decide; but we should think
tic 4e
I.Netrob °h some such a principle of dividing
ophai would facilitate the delivery of let-
' ~ rt the., e?nrse, means could easily be found to
'rt/l'oliß;tters in each local post-office of the me-
-1,4i1y 11:r every part of the empire ; they could as
est seta from such offices as from the General
ith ‘`'tte
the and could be as easily deposited there
1:'4141 041.11141 ill the morning of the mails, and
ipa tea., e: Ee sorted, and thence distributed. We
'Ni,lhteotion of following out this scheme into
s,. We •
only throw out the hint, leaving offi-
11(4,,__'t if ii!4.l._equainted with the subject to follow it
71.0 e, Worthy of notice, but assuring the
authorities that there is a great and