The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-06 00:00:00

RATES OF POSTAGE-.
(From the London Gazette of last Evenin;.)
TREASURY WARRANT
Whereas by a warrant, dated the 19th day of March,
18 11, under the hands of three of the Commissioners of
her Majesty's Treasury, the said Comnissioners, in excl.-
cise of the power for such purpose vested in them by an
Act; passed in the third and fourth years of the reign •of
her present Majesty, intituled " An Act for the regulation
of the duties of postage," did (amongst other things) direct
that on every letter, not exceeding half an ounce in
weight, posted in or addressed to Hamburgh, trans-
mitted by the pest, and passing between Ham-•
burgh and any of the countries or places men-
tioned iu the schedule thereto, through the United
Kingdom (conveyed between Hamburgh tied the
United Kingdom, direct by packet boat or private
ship), there should be charged and taken the rate
of British postage set opposite the name of every such
country or place in such schedule ; and that on every
letter, not exceeding half an ounce in weight, posted in
or addressed to Lubeck, transmitted by the post And
passing (tither direct or via Hamburgh) between Lubeck
and any of the countries or places mentioned in the
schedule thereto, through the United Kingdom (con-
veyed between Lubeck or Hamburgh and the United
Kingdom, direct by packet 'boat or private ship), there
should be charged and taken the rate of British postage
set opposite the name of every such country or place in
such schedule
And by another warrant, under the hands of three
of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, dated
.the .31st day of August last, the said Coinmissioners
did, in exercise of the power or authority in them
for such purpose vested, direct that on every letter
posted in or addressed to Bremen, transmitted by the
post between Bremen and ally of the countries or
places mentioned in the schedule thereto, through
the United Kingdom, conveyed direct by packet boat
or private ship between the United Kingdom and
Bremen or Ilamburgh, Cuxhaven, or Hanover, there
should be charged and taken the rate of British
postage set opposite the name of every such country
or place in such schedule ; and in each of the said
warrants, progressive additional rates of postage
were directed to be charged and . taken on letters
transmitted as therein mentioned, exceeding half an
ounce in weight, according to the scale of weight and
number of rates in the said As contained, contained, estimating
and charging each' additil 57.. y at' the sum which
any such letters would be' Charged with under such
warrants if not exceeding half an ounce in weight ;
and in each- of the said warrants power was reserved to
the Commissioners, for the time being, of her 'Majesty's
Treasury, or any three of them by warrant, under their
hands, at any time thereafter, to alter or repeal any of
the rates thereby altered, and the regulations thereby
made, and to make and establish any new or other rates
or regulations in lieu thereof: -
And whereas in consequence of the treaties with the
post offices of Hamburgh, Lubeck, and Bremen, and the
intended reduction of the rates of postage on letters
transmitted between the United Kingdom and Panama,
it is expedient that the several rates of postage men-
tioned in the schedules to the said warrants, and thereby
-charged on letters conveyed to or from Hamburgh, Lu-
beck, or Bremen, through the United Kingdom, should
be altered:
Now we, the undersigned, being three of the Corn-
missioners of her Majesty's Treasury, in exercise of
the powers or authorities in us for such purpose
vested in and by the said Act, and the said warrants,
do hereby direct and declare, that the several rates of
postage mentioned in the, schedules contained in the
said respective . warrants, and thereby charged on
letters 'conveyed between Hamburgh, Lubeck, or
Bremen, and any of the countries or places mentioned
in such -schedules, through the United Kingdom, shall be,
and the same are hereby repealed, on and from the 11th
day of October next.
And we, the said Commissioners, in further exer-
cise of the powers or, authorities in us fur such pur-
pose veined in and by the said Act, and the said war-
rants, do hereby further direct; that, on and from
the said 11 th day .of October . next, there shall be
charged and taken, in lieu of the rates of postage
hereby repealed, the rates of postage following (that it
to say); on every letter not exceeding half an ounce it
weight, posted in or addressed to Hamburg"), trans
nutted by the post, and passing between Hamburgh and
any of the British colonies, or , Any foreign country
through the United Kingdom (conveyed between Ham-
burgh and the United Kingdom direct by packet boat or
private ship); add on every letter not exceeding half an
ounce in weight, posted in or addressed to Lubeck,
transmitted by the post, and passing tither direct or
via Hamburgh, between Lubeck and any of the
British colonies, or any foreign country through the
United Kingdom (conveyed between Lubeck or Ham-
burgh and the United Kingdom, direct by packet
boat or private ship); and on every letter not exceed-
ing half an ounce in weight, posted in or addressed
to Bremen, transmitted by the post between Bremen
and any of? the British colonies, or any foreign coun-
try, through the United Kingdom (conveyed direct
by packet-boat or private ship between the United
Kinvdom and Bremen, or Hamburgh, Cuxhaven,
or stanover) ; there shall be charged and taken
an uniform rate of British postage of sixpence, for
the conveyance of every ,such letter between Ham-
burgh or Lubeck, or Bremen, Cuxhaven, or Hanover,
and any part of the United Kingdom ; and also such
a further or additional rate of British postage for the
conveyance of every such letter between the port in
the United diipgdozn. of the .departure Or arrival_
the packet or ship conveying the same, and the co-
lony or foreign country to or from which the same
shall be forwarded, as shall from time to time, be charged
and payable for British postage on letters, not exceeding
half an ounce in weight, posted or delivered at the port
in the United Kingdom of the departure or arrival of
the packet or ship conveying the same, and transmitted
direct between such port and such colony or foreign
country.
And we further direct,,that on every letter trans-
mitted as is mentioned in this warrant, exceeding
half an ounce in weight, there shall be charged
and taken progressive and additional rates of
postage according to the scale of weight and num-
ber of rates in the said Act contained as to letters,
estimating and charging each additional rate, at the
suns which any such letter would be charged with
under this warrant if not , exeeeding half an ounce in
weight.
And we further direct, that the terms and expressions
used in this present warrant shall be construed to have
the like meaning, in all respects, as they would have had
if inserted in the said Act. -

And we further direct, that this warrant shall come
into operation on the 11th day of October, 1841.
Provided lastly, and we hereby declare and direct,
that it shall be lawful for the Commissioners, for the
time being, of her Majesty's Treasury, or any three
of them, by warrant under their hands, at any time
hereafter, to alter or repeal any of the rates hereby
altered, or the regulations hereby made, and to make
and establish any new or other rates or regulations in
lieu thereof, and, from time to time, to appoint at what
time the rates that may be payable are to be paid.
Whitehall, Treasury-chambers, the 30th day of
September, 1841.

HENRY BARING,
A. PRINGLE,
J. MILNES GASK ELL.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—Whilst it is the policy of the party now
in power to deny, or at least to underrate, the distresses
of the people, there is a strong tendency to exaggerate
the difficnities in which the nation itself has been handed
over to the care of the present Government. Now
it is true that embarrassments have arisen—chiefly,
however, from the uncontrollable course of events, for
which no human wisdom could have provided ; but, as
Lord Melbourne last night most distinctly sad em-
phatically declared, the affairs of the country have not
been left to the men now in office " in a dangerous or
enormously difficult state," nor is there any barrier to
the restoration of prosperity, that will not give way
before a bold and vigorous, but at the same time an
enlarged and liberal policy. We know that the mo•
tive of the Tories in overrating the extent of the ma-
lady is to claim undue merit for the expected cure ;
and the present condition of the country is made to
look very black, that it may be contrasted here-
after with its brighter aspect—as water is rendered
unnaturally and unnecessarily dark and muddy, to show
the virtues of a filter—or as a most rude and illegible
scrawl is exhibited in a writing-master's show-board, for
the purpose of demonstrating the improvement that " six
lessons' can accomplish by a peculiar system of instruc-
fief' in the art of caligraphy. We shall expect that, after
some few months have elapsed, we shall be asked by Sir IL
Peel's journals "to look on this picture.-and on this"—
when the exaggerated daub now painted to order, in which
every object is purposely black"ned to a most unsightly
pitch, will be contrasted with a tuLthiu in which the
opposite extreme will be reached, and where everything
will be highly and brilliantly coloured in the blaring
hues of overdrawn prosperity. We shall have speci-
mens, too, of the improvement effected in the national
prospects, after so many lessons from Sir Robert Peel—
lessons which, from past experience, will, we have no
doubt, be sufficiently severe, and may at least have the
merit of finishing the education of the public in the art
of properly appreciating a Conservative Government.
STANDARD.—The Rouse of Commons did not sit
last night, but the proceedings of the House of Lords
were so unusually lively as to2compensate for the
silence of the other House of Parliament. Lord
Minto commenced the business of the night with au
apology for 'hiS dispensation of patronage as First
Lord of the Admiralty. His Lordship mentioned
some twenty promotions which he justified by rules
laid down by his predecessors. This would be very
well if the twenty officers promoted had been
time only promotions made during the five years and up-
wards of the Noble Lord's administration, or if the
twenty, or any of them, had been objected to spe-
cially. The truth, however, is, that in five years
Lord Minto has made, not twenty, but five times
twenty—perhaps ten times twenty—appointments,
and of those which he mentioned last night
few, if any, were the appointments objected to.
Qui s'excuse s'accicse," says the pithy proverb,
Lord Minto, unchallenged—uncharged by any one,
cams forward to startle the House with a defence
wholly unexpected ; and this defence ought to have
been a complete one. When a man's conscience tells
him that he ought to defend himself against the sus-.
picion of having abused his patronage, it will not do to
present so lame an apology as Lord Minto offered
last night. It will not do to say that " out of
hundred or two hundred appointments that I
have made, see, here are a score perfectly in rule ;"
for the obvious inference is, that the others will not
bear the light. We could without difficulty find
many, very many, appointments made by Lord Minto,
to which his rules will not apply, and which cannot be
justified upon any grounds ; but we willingly resign the