The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-11 00:00:00

FROM THE SUN POET LAUREAT
Tune--" The Brave Old Oak."
Here's a song to The Sun, the brave old Sun,
That has ruled in the country long ;
Here's health and renown to its columns long,
And subscribers Eve thousand s:rong.
It showeth its s:r.rgth on a great del:ate,
When the Chronicle and Times run light;
And now the Royal Nuptial Sun
Fires in the horizon bright.
Then firm's to The Sun, &c.

THE PENNY POST AND THE
ROYAL WEDDING SUN.

From the rate at which letters hare flowed in upon
us for the last two or three days " we calculate" that
our contribution to the t evenue at the end of the week
will amount to -something between 2501. and 300/.
We do not exaggerate when we say that 990 of every
thousand of the money let era we have received
would never have been written or transmitted through the
Post-office if the Penny-post had not been established.
The artifices and subterfuges to which our correspond-
ents have resor:cd to conceal or protect their enclosures
are most amusing and ingenious. One young lady has
her half-sovereign tied up in love ribbon, and finished
off with a true lover's knot, begging hard to have a
true account of how the Queen and Prince Albert
looked. A medical gentleman in the North' of Scot-
land has his " saxpence" secured with a piece of stick-
inz-plaister l An officer's widow surrounds her shilling
with .t,lck crape, and has her honest and loyal heart
rejoiced with a portrait of the Queen and Prince Albert,
and a full account of the interesting ceremony. A
canny Scot splits a card in twain, and inserts his
half-crown in the centre to " do" the Postman, and
impress him with the belief that there is " nne siller,"
but merely a double letter, for which ,he has paid his
twa pence. An Irish gentleman, who dates his letter
from " Ballyki!ga!rnagirFk Castle," requests us to send
him two hundred copies of the Queen's Imperial
Sum, for a sovereign. We omit the loyalty and
enthusiasm of his letter, and we have omitted merely
a nortglit in .his order. We hope this hint will be suf-
ficient. The Tories are evidently coming into power,
for so far as we have been able (with the assistance of
a dozen extra clerks to glance over the heaps of letters
with which cur room is filled;, we find the money most
conservativelysecured from the prying eye cr search ofthe
post. office -authorities. The following is really too
good to omit :

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. •
Ste,—Will you have the kindness to cause to be for-
warded three pair (six) nuptial sheets to my address,
value enclosed.
Trmtinz that in due coursa (a prayer I am sure you will
heartily join in) her Majesty's nuptials may produce a Son
as'iilustrious in the political, as your Sun is in the literary
world, I am, S r, yours, respectfully,
132; George-street, Limerick, J. S., Surgeon.
Feb. 8, 1840.
Portsmouth, Plymouth, Sheerness, and half a dozen
others of the urincipal sea-ports, have poured in their
hundreds of letters ; the old Atlm.rals, to do them
justice, expcct. the " full valuo" 'of their enclosures,
while the blue jackets pay us off with " a flowing
sheet," and give unlimited cash and credit orders for a
single copy. We must close to-day with an extract from
a lawyer's letter—his half-sovereign was tied with red
tape, covered with wax, "to cheat the devil in the
dark," and had two distinct envelopes over it, severally
signed and scaled. He says—" If there are no
more Nuplual or Wedding Suns on sale, I trust
th;s order tvi6i ;be without prejudice to my recovering
the amount enclosed. 7 NVe shall return to our
" Wedding Sun" letter-bag to-.-norrow.