The Sun.
London, England, 1824-09-14 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

POSTAGE.
Mr. EDlTOR—Perceiving by your Paper of the
Bth instant, that a postage of one penny has been
charged upon newspapers at Cloumel, I beg
leave to apprise you that the same charge has,
within the last twelve months, taken place in
England. I know no good reason for it ; Ido
nottnow whether this charge is general through-
out all England, or the precise nature of it in
Ireland. With us it is called a Id. post charge,
at least-the envelope of our newspapers is marked
" Barnstaple Penny Post." I presume, SIT, that
nothing can warrant an increased 14. Postage
but an increased price of provender ; but this
with us has decreased more than one half, for,
during the war, oats were from fis. to 6s. a
bushel ; now they average not more than from
'2s. to ts. 64. I cannot help saying, Sir, that one
of the most valuable appendages of a free Govern-
ment is the free circulation of the Daily Press.
This new regulation, which makes a newspaper a
Id. a day dearer, is certainly a check on that in-
formation which the public Journals convey. I
have many a long year subscribed to your most
useful Journal, because the Police Reports are im-
partially given in it; it is for this reason that when
I have done with it I always send my newspaper
into my kitchen, and have uniformly found that
my servants pay particular attention to the Trials
and Police Examinations. I have mentioned this
to many of my friends, who, like myself, have
edopted the same plan, for the most obvious ren-
sons. Sir, if any one will point out to me a better
mode of preventing crime than by letting the
lower orders themselves discover the evil conse-
quences attending it, I will at once give up the
argument. Every sensible man must be an advo-
cate for the doctrine of rewards and punishments.
Experience teaches us that religion must have its
sanction ; but is not the prevention of crime by
the daily exposition of its dreadful consequences
a part of this holy law ? Of what use are all the
gratuitous schools which aro now established, if
the reading of newspapers is to be in part prohi-
bited ? It may be said, that a person who will
not pay a Id. a day in addition does not deserve
a newspaper. 'I beg leave to observe, that 'I am
not a person of that description, or I should not
have seen in your useful Journal, of whichl have
been for so many years a constant Reader, the
letter from Clonmel. The question is not about
a id, a day, but about the justice and abstract
policy of the charge ; the objection does not pro-
ceed upon a mercenary, but upon a liberal
idea. The Daily Prints bring in to the Government
(thanks to the good policy of our free State) an

immense Revenue, without in any wayoppress-
• jog, but in every way by benvfitting the Public.
The newspapers daily record the evil conse-
quences of crime, and enforce upon all the sum
total of the Commandments. "Thou shalt do
no manner of wrong, for no mortal can do so with

impunity." Behold the Law, read the conse-
quence !! ! A newspaper, Sir, is of all produc-
tions of Modern. History the most valuable. The

Legislature must have originally thought so, by
granting to it the privilege of free postage. Now,
why this novel encroachment of Id. Posts ? I
have left out the definite article, for I do not
know whether the regulation is extended to the
whole of the United kingdom or not. I have,
however, thought proper to give you-this inform-
ation, to the intent that if you think it of suffi-
cient importance, you may publish it to the
world through the medium of your widely-circu-
lated Journal. Some legislative provision seems,
therefore, necessary to compel id. Posts, where
they are appended to the General one, to deliver
newspapers gratis. This would be no more than
a restoration of the old Law. We have had a
J. Post in this locality appended to the General
one for these last W years, but we never, till this
last year, paid Id. for a newspaper.
UTILE DULCE.
Ilfracombe, Sept. 11, 1824.

. tuvostertctnn.—A murder of on infant, under
circumstances of unusual and appalling barbarity, occurred a
few days ago, near Scot's hitiyov, in the county of Monaghan.
A young unmarried woman„-the daughter of a farmer in com-
fortable circumstances, and rather above the common class,
bad been visibly with child for some time past ; and report
attributed it to an illicit intercourse with a Roman Catholic
clergyman, who was intimate at the house, and whom report
stated to have seduced and got pregnet another sister, who
was some time ago delivered, though no trace was ever heard of
the Infant. A few days since, the young woman lay in ;. and
shortly after, her,father, mother, and two uncles were in the
-room with,the door closed; anti a servant outside heard the cry
of the child, and ,also heard its mother say to her own mother,
" Oh, mother, don't kill my child." There was no appearance
.of the infant afterwards. Suspicion was excited, by the general
knowledge that the young woman lay in—the disappearance of
the infant...-the former confinement of her sister—and the dis-
appearance of that child ; and from some hints which fell from
the servant maid, a search was made about the place, which
led
to the discovery of a fresh interred child, and the bones of
another, in an old fort near their house. The discovery caused
mother of the child, her parents, and her two uncles to ab-
wand. Came Madden, of h
Milton,
M a ago) ra e, a
't t s been
exerting himself for their a ) I
this dreadful ar,o6ty ' h Me tension, ,and the elucidating of
ed but as !at his exertions have not sue-
. ceed.—€ Cavan /braid
. A
, It is said. to be the intention of resident Bar-
risters of the Counties to attend
the Circuits of
.;the Commissioners for.. the relief of Insolvent
-Debtors.